Exhibition design firm Polyptychon in collaboration with the Ethnographic Museum George Melikis in Northern Greece have designed a moving exhibition of more than 100 masks, used in Greek traditional rituals, folklore happenings, religious-magical celebrations. The mask are made of cheap, easy to find, wearable materials: leather, wood, seeds, paper, beads and other humble materials, they constitute whimsical –almost surrealistic- compositions or moving installations. Their life-circle of the masks is short: people keep them for no more than a year and then they burn them in order to ‘fire the evil away’ and expel bad energy.
The aim of the exhibition is to travel in various venues around the world and display the mystical nature of the masks and the subconscious connections of humans with their animistic side, as most cultures have masks in their traditions and rituals, making these objects an ancient, universal rite. Here are some examples!
Website: polyptychon.gr
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