EDISON PEÑAFIEL – MARE MAGNVM: LA LLEGADA
2021-11-29Edison Peñafiel’s exhibition introduces the viewer to 81 characters in a succesive series of black and white portraits.
“MARE MAGNVM: La Llegada” does not refer only to a single or specific event. No information is given on the characters’ origin or their personal history. Their faces are not visible, covered by papier-mâché masks typical from Peñafiel’s native Ecuador, that both humanize and depersonify these character. The identity of these people remains temporally and culturally ambiguous, and unspecific costuming transforms them into archetypal representatives of any diasporic population.
Opposite – QVI VLTRA MARE VENIVNT 1, 2021
Exhibition runs through to January 15th, 2022
Sabrina Amrani
Madera, 23
28004 Madrid
