Linda Sgoluppi art - Curse Bowel & Altar

Curse Bowl & Altar

About Curse Bowl & Altar

An artwork in the form of a boxed Alter with a curse bowl and paper scrolls with QR codes - Curse bowl and altar artwork by Linda Sgoluppi, featuring a wooden bowl with painted surfaces, barbed wire detail, and multiple paper scrolls bound with cord in upper and lower compartments, each scroll partially concealed, suggesting coded narrative, ritual space, and the artist’s engagement with language, meaning, and empowerment.

Curse Bowl & Altar - Wooden bowl/paint/barbed wire/paper/thread

An artwork in the form of a boxed Alter with a curse bowl and paper scrolls with QR codes - Curse bowl and altar artwork by Linda Sgoluppi, featuring a wooden bowl with painted surfaces, barbed wire detail, and multiple paper scrolls bound with cord in upper and lower compartments, each scroll partially concealed, suggesting coded narrative, ritual space, and the artist’s engagement with language, meaning, and empowerment.

Curse Bowl & Altar - Wooden bowl/paint/barbed wire/paper/thread

Detail from the Curse Bowl Alter by Linda Sgoluppi - Curse bowl and altar artwork by Linda Sgoluppi, featuring a wooden bowl with painted surfaces, barbed wire detail, and multiple paper scrolls bound with cord in upper and lower compartments, each scroll partially concealed, suggesting coded narrative, ritual space, and the artist’s engagement with language, meaning, and empowerment.

Altar - Wooden bowl/paint/barbed wire/paper/thread - Verso

Curse Bowel containing a modern curse - Detail of the wooden curse bowl in the altar installation, painted and textured by Linda Sgoluppi, with layered materials and scroll fragments visible, embodying the artist’s interest in incantation bowls, paradoxical inscriptions, modern myth, and the performative interplay between intention and ambiguity.

Curse Bowl - Wooden bowl/paint

Detail from the Curse Bowl Alter by Linda Sgoluppi.

Detail - Curse Bowl

Detail from the Curse Bowl Alter by Linda Sgoluppi - Close-up of scrolls within the curse bowl altar by Linda Sgoluppi, paper rolls tied with golden cord in upper and lower compartments, each containing symbolic content, suggesting the merging of ancient ritual forms with contemporary conceptual ideas.

Detail Scrolls - Curse Bowl

Detail from the Curse Bowl Alter by Linda Sgoluppi -Close-up of scrolls within the curse bowl altar by Linda Sgoluppi, paper rolls tied with golden cord in upper and lower compartments, each containing symbolic content, suggesting the merging of ancient ritual forms with contemporary conceptual ideas.

Detail - Curse Bowl

Detail from the Curse Bowl Alter by Linda Sgoluppi.

Curse Bowl - Detail scroll in the lower compartment

Detail from the Curse Bowl Alter, verso, by Linda Sgoluppi - Verso of the Altar of the Curse Bowl & Altar installation by Linda Sgoluppi, interplay of wood, paint, cord, scrolls, and wire forming a contemplative ritual object referencing ancient Mesopotamian incantation bowls and inviting reflection on language, meaning, and empowerment through artistic creation. The curse refers o a modern Fraudsterr who was later given a prison sentence of 14.5 years.

Detail - Curse Bowl

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