In South America, the devotion of Mary Untier of Knots is well known for solving everyday problems that present a feeling of complication or disturbance of a peaceful situation. It could be, for instance, related to health, work, marriage and money. As a strong presence in my own family, and an object of entanglement between German art history and Brazilian catholic culture, I use the image of the Untier of Knots in order to think about time and history. Is it possible to visualize history as a series of knots in time susceptible of being tied and untied? Complicated, prolonged, shortened, tangled or solved?
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