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Francis Naranjo

LA POSIBILIDAD DE LA MÁSCARA BLANCA

Vidéo | 4k | | 3:53 | Espagne | 2022

The possibility of the white mask is presented as a discussion table that houses its own jail. Above it is a composition of elements that reflect on the indigenous, on the "others", on the human condition, on contamination, extractivism, memory, migrations, and above all, putting on the table the fracture that separates us. In this proposal we use two masks: One from the African continent: Ghana; and another from the South American continent: Bolivia. Both refer us to ancestral thoughts. Migrations and rites relate them in their intentions. The Ghanaian Ashanti tribe mask (present on the table) are often part of ceremonial attire and worn at religious and social events to represent the spirits of the ancestors. In the mask of the Grandparents (Bolivia, Chiquitanía) tradition indicates that it was a form of mockery that the elders of San José used with the young Chiquitanos, who followed the teachings of the recently arrived Jesuit missionaries. It was the way they tried to dissuade them from embracing the new customs and religion. The possibility of the white mask is presented to us as a ritual where the fractures on which to reflect are different.

Francis Naranjo. Born in Santa María de Guía (Gran Canaria, Spain), in 1961. Multidisciplinary artist who crosses artistic limits exploring in constant research and experimentation, which focuses his process on the investigation of the relationships between the human condition and factors of the prevailing system. He has carried out public works, he has lectured, he has curated, he has written about artists and reflections, he has carried out and participated in numerous individual and collective exhibitions, among other activities. In recent years his activity is focused, above all, in South America.