Desaparecer dentro

red-dyed wool mask
40 x 46 x 35 cm
13 heads made of polyester resin and cotton canvas
14 x 9 x 12 cm each

Desaparecer dentro (1995–2005) is a mask without an opening, made of coiled red wool.

The mask is an accessory that alters one’s outward appearance; it allows the wearer to fade into the background behind a new identity. In a ritual context, it enables communication with the invisible. By inverting the inside and the outside like a glove turned inside out, this work seems to reveal the interior of a body. It is extended by a necklace of faces, whose colors and features gradually fade or become more distinct depending on the direction in which we view the work. Hovering between appearance and disappearance, they evoke birth and death.