Masks

Masks, like avatars, can be understood as a desire for the protection of privacy and as devices that foster the interplay between identity, technology, power and ancestral memory.
At the Museo Dorado Alhma, these masks become silent characters that embody changing identities, inviting you to look at the world through emotions that oscillate from strangeness, sadness, serenity, and pain to melancholy. The section provides a personified psychological setting, mixed with the memory of other ancient modes of civilisation in which the golden masks were used as symbols of power, prestige, and transcendence and they were funerary or ritual in character. The digital texturing evokes techniques of porcelain and lacquering.