As part of Women’s Month, MAPI presents the exhibition “R@stros (faces and traces) femeninos. Claudio Rama’s collection of Latin American masks”.

This exhibition brings us closer to the cultural diversity of Latin American societies in terms of practices and behaviors associated with celebrations and festivities –civic and religious– that have their origin in the confluence of traditions.

As Mariana Percovich states in the exhibition’s presentation text, these popular festivities, “with their content of symbolic concentration in costumes and masks, tend to be good thermometers of a society and its time”.

On this occasion we exhibit masks associated with women. This group presents a diverse panorama of the conceptions of gender roles expressed in these celebrations. In particular, the representations and symbolism of the masks constitute traces that bring us closer to the questions surrounding the identity that each society constructs and reproduces.

From March 6 until May, MAPI gives the public access to more than 30 pieces, mainly masks, but also dolls and headdresses belonging to celebrations in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru.