animalojos

mascarojos is a series of haunting portraits where faces are interrupted, erased, replaced, or overtaken by a single, oversized symbolic eye. Each character wears a mask that doesn’t hide, but rather magnifies their internal state. These beings are oracles, ghosts, and witnesses: part ritual, part rebellion. Rooted in Latin American expressionism and pre-Columbian echoes, as well as several ancient cultures

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The series fuses ancestral iconography with contemporary visual language. The eye becomes a wound, a scream, a portal, something too alert to ignore. In each piece, identity is not constructed but dismantled, leaving only presence: raw, staring, unresolved.

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mascarojos is not about seeing—it’s about being seen. Through aggressive strokes, sacred color palettes, and visceral textures, this series brings ojolo’s gaze to its most vulnerable and defiant form. A theatre of faces, unmasked by the very act of watching.