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Javier Silva Meinel

Waca Wacas y Perro, Paucartambo, Cuzco, Peru, 1996

Description

Maker

  • Javier Silva Meinel, b. 1949, Peruvian

Title

Waca Wacas y Perro, Paucartambo, Cuzco, Peru

Year

1996

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • silver print,
  • silver gelatin print

Supports

  • photo paper

Dimensions

Plate: 45.7 x 45.7 cm (18 x 18 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Verso, LL:WACA WACA Y PERRO PAUCARTAMBO CUSCO PERU 1996; LC:1/20; LR: JAVIER SILVA MEINER; UR:35863-C

Identification

Edition

1/20

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Photographs

Credit

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Barnet Fain

Object Number

1997.103.1

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Historias

August 9, 2013 - January 5, 2014

This photograph was taken in Paucartambo, Peru, at the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, an annual three-day festival honoring the Virgin Mary, celebrated since colonial times. Festivities include a mix of pre-Columbian Andean ceremonies and Catholic traditions, with troupes of masked dancers re-enacting traditional stories and historic events in a stylized battle of good and evil.

Here Meinel pictures one of these festival troupes, the Waca Wacas or Bulls. By taking the dancers out of the context of the village streets and re-staging them inside his studio, Meinel raises questions about the relationship between ancient indigenous and contemporary traditions.

Use

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