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Carlos Amorales's work revolves around masks and the displacement and transmutation of identities. In Mexican wrestling, each fighter assumes a fictional persona, which he or she represents through costume, mask and behavior, thus producing a range of fantastic and often bizarre characters and a vast array of inventive visual paraphernalia. Amorales draws upon this world of wrestling, that mixture of theatre, sport and popular entertainment so widely diffused among the Mexican people that and athlete such as El Santo has become a mythical hero.
Amorales has created a similar alter ego, but he has given it his own name, and the wrestler's mask he had made portrays his own face. This game of identities based on the fiction of wrestling has a precedent in Superbarrio, a character dressed like Superman and masked like a wrestler, who crops up without warning in Mexico City's poor neighborhoods to oppose evictions. His unusual appearance attracts the press and brings a visibility that reveals abuses against the community, whilst also protecting him from repression

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