Masks, Fascinate Universe

Dahiana Jaime
Dec 18, 2022
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Masks, Fascinate Universe

In this art exhibition, the viewer was transmitted a highly variable message of creative manifestations with contemporary ideas on pieces that have shown vestiges of their daily representations since ancient times. These manifestations are the result of the need to create of the artists involved in this artistic exhibition together with the perception of self-awareness.

Masks developed in various ways around the world. They became uses and customs of each region in the memory of the community, generally associated with the deities that were transmitted from ancestor to ancestor with diverse themes in some cases used in rituals for rain, offering, blessing, curse, etc. spells, accompanied by rhythms accompanied by dance.

The creation of the masks worked with all these cultural expressions, becoming an allegorical event.

The Maya Museum of Cancun and Promart lives Art, has brought together renowned Mexican and foreign artists for this event that began on August 19, 2022 and ended on November 16 of the same year, presenting a new vision of contemporary artists in a joint effort.

Hortensia Sanz Polo, art curator, has brought together the renowned artists, which they enriched with the presence of a series of masks with the intention of showing the public a new vision that the artists offered regarding the roots of humanity and its ancestors.

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ARTIST DAHIANA JAIME

My experience in this group exhibition at the Mayan Museum in Cancun was to see my dream come true, I remember being a 10-year-old girl and having this first idea of exhibiting my pictorial works in a museum and being an artist came true in this event. looking at your child self and telling him that we have fulfilled our dream was one of the best experiences I have had with art. So never stop believing in your dreams and keep working on them because they do come true.

My work is inspired by The Calima Culture is a group of cultures from pre-Columbian times that were in western Colombia, in the current department of Valle del Cauca, in the valleys of the San Juan, Dagua and Calima rivers. They settled between 1600 B.C. and the 6th century A.D.

The Calima used gold especially for their funeral rites, as a way of connecting with the afterlife.

Many of them were carved in a way that they could imitate a feline or a powerful animal. The masks had various representations such as the jaguar and the bat and others represented the "animal ego".