CATHARSIS: RE/BUILDING after Maria is a multidisciplinary project that brings together visual and performing artists and the community at large to express themselves around the impact of Hurricane Maria on their lives. With this exhibition, the Museo de Las Américas offers the opportunity to bring together works, stories, and emotions in one place to somehow release feelings triggered by this historic event. CATARSIS aims to be a long-term project that will give both the artistic community and schools and cultural and community centers the opportunity to use the museum as an accessible alternative space for exhibitions, performances, and talks that aid the healing process as a country.

catharsis: From the Greek: purge, purification. For the Greeks, it refers to the ritual purification of people or things affected by some impurity. The effect that tragedy has on the spectator by arousing and purifying compassion, fear, horror, and other emotions. Externally, it refers to the feeling of purification or liberation aroused by an experience caused by any work of art. Physiology: Spontaneous or induced expulsion of harmful substances from the body. Externally, it refers to the elimination of memories that disturb consciousness or nervous balance.

On display until April 1, 2018