Lagarto Lagarto

«See images from the book Memory of W gave me the idea for this book. W was the daughter of a German father and an Arawak Indian mother, and although her mother was Catholic, she adopted her father's Protestant religion. When I met her, W. was living in Amsterdam and was a very active member and treasurer of a Masonic lodge; on Monday afternoons she attended Salvation Army meetings; she was also part of a group of women who, dressed in white veils and white clothing, kept vigil over the dead. W. maintained close ties with the Hindu and Jewish communities. During her final, fatal illness, she was cared for by a shaman from Suriname (formerly Dutch Guiana) ...
During the years I have travelled around Spain working on the ‘Vanitas’ project, I have often come across images similar to those associated with syncretic and semi-secret cults such as Haitian Vodou, Cuban Santería or Brazilian Candomblé and Ubanda. Spain, a melting pot of so many races and cultures, is also a place where these types of images proliferate, although they are now doubly mixed and devoid of religious content. Santiago Mata-Moros shares territory with Yemanjá and Ogun; there are living dead in Galicia...»

Cristóbal Hara (From the text of the work)