The New Gods
Every year, Carillo Puerto, a small village in the mountains in southern Mexico, becomes the set of an unusual celebration. Over the years, the village has developed its own unique version of the well-known Mexican tradition consisting in re-enacting Jesus’ procession and crucifixion on Holy Fridays. Whilst everywhere else it is a day of mourning, , in Carillo Puerto - on the contrary - is taken over by a surreal and poetic theater of the absurd, where unconventional masquerade runs the street in a chaotic madness.
Rooted in an amalgam of religious beliefs, local and popular culture, pagan traditions and personal mythologies, the homemade costumes and characters become a microcosm of specific roles and interaction in contemporary society as well a revealing each person’s desire to personify someone else.
This is a larger exhibition project that includes photographs as well as sculptures. The project is created in collaboration with visual Mexican artist Alejandro Garcia Contreras.