MISTAKEN IDENTITY? NO SUCH THING, SAYS NEW EXHIBITION

MISTAKEN IDENTITY? NO SUCH THING, SAYS NEW EXHIBITION
By Helen Thompson - the A.M. Costa Rica staff, 18 April 2008

Costa Rica is a land of volatile volcanoes, orchids, coffee fincas, Catholicism and Ticos.

Or you could say it's a country of wide seashores, football stadiums, fast food restaurants and beach towns overtaken by Gringos.

Some are clichéd symbols of a tourist nation, while others are part of the country's changing culture, but all are involved in Museo de Arte Costarricense's new exhibition that challenges viewers to reconsider their own perceptions of the nation.

It is not new to propose that identity is an insecure, many-faceted thing that shifts with each person's viewpoint, but the concept is explored very effectively by the interactive "Las posibilidades de la mirada" (the possibilities of the glance).

A fat, Hawaiian shirt-clad, red-faced Gringo, lifting his hand to guard his eyes from the tropical sunlight, greets the museum's visitors at the entrance...Read more


A.M. Costa Rica/Helen Thompson

'Enjambre' (the swarm) by Rafael Angel
                  Garcia Picado


« Back to News Archive