Artificial Mystification
of a painting1998 - 2000

Tour of emblematic (tourist) places to load of "Myth" the painting of a severed head.

Since 1998 Baraya has been traveling with him a painting of a severed head. In the different places he passed through, Ó took photographs of the painting's encounter with emblematic places of his imaginary. In December 2000, the painting toured places in Mexico City and the Yucatan peninsula where Finally, at the New Year's party, the painting was incinerated.

Is the artificial mythification of a painting possible?

The “Mythification by contact” project emerges as a journey of innocently magical interests around the relationship of the romantic traveler, painting, stories and mythical places.

The Myths are far away. To meet him, he departs on a pilgrimage trip, like the one the ancient Greeks made after the oracle, asking questions.