LUX FEMINÆ · 900 – 1600
Montserrat Figueras

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• Montserrat Figueras

Lux Feminae is a homage to the light of Woman. Having sung of that light for so long through music and poetry, I naturally became aware that it has not always been free to shine. Lux Feminae is also a story with music about women and an invocation to femininity, as the key to the spiritual world. Lux Feminae focuses on seven aspects of woman in ancient Hesperia, from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.

Seven is a sacred number that has been revered by sages and mystics through the ages: it is the union of 4 (the four elements, the four colours from which all the colours in the artist’s palette are made…) and 3 (the Trinity, the Pyramid…), symbolising the union of all things both spiritual and earthly, a union which is also embodied in the figure of woman. Seven is the number of the climes, the seas, the heavens and the days of Creation; this sacred dimension is also found in music and poetry and, indeed, in ourselves, since we have the capacity to make sacred or profound everything that we experience and do. Over and above sacred music, there is a sacred way of making music.

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Montserrat Figueras