Mano de Altares de Mano
21 Photos from the Exhibit by Fernando Calzadilla

What other thing does the Altar as marker of belonging signify but the belonging to an Identity? And, does not Identity, always performed, move in time as it moves through space forced by subalternity into a constantly disappearing act to subvert dominant ideologies and to avoid essentialist categorizations? The performance of Identity as well as the object's performance, in this case, the cased Altars, is about the experience of being in the world in an immediate and affecting manner.

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Click on the images to see more details of individual altars
Photos this page by Reynaldo Armas

Coromoto	Hay Cinco	Milagrosa
Sailor Moon	Power Ranger	Blanqueado
Barbara Xena	Candela	Eduviges
Caridad	San Sonai	El Gran Poder
El Venao	Sanz Partio	Hercules Miguel y José
VirYin y Yang	Miss Nueva Esparta	No Estaba Muerto
Dolorosa	F F	Y Tan Tan

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