As a child making home videos, Marcel Dzama, 49, asked his father and sister to cover their faces with masks because they couldn’t stop grinning.
The collection: Handmade masks, in materials ranging from paper to wood to cloth.
I said, ‘A mask.’ It was made out of ceramic and had a happy face on one side and a sad face on the other.
I’ve been sending her masks because she likes to paint them.”Most expensive: “Probably these 40 wooden masks from Guadalajara [in Mexico].
José inherited his mask collection, but he couldn’t look at it because he felt too sad.
Persons:
Marcel Dzama, “, Lorca, ”, Federico García Lorca, Mamma Andersson, I’ve, José, Salceda
Organizations:
Performa, Arts
Locations:
Canadian, Spanish, Hawaii, Winnipeg, Brooklyn, Guadalajara, Mexico