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Space 03

Cachaceros Room

Masks, costumes, materials, theatricality and Afro-descendant memories.

A Cachacero rider with antlers, skulls, feathers and a caiman, on a striped mount
Black banner of the CachacerosCachaceros
Cuadrilla
Cachaceros
Horse
Black or zaino
More about the horses
Corral of the Four Horses

Tour of the Cachaceros Room

A tour of the Cachaceros room in six moments. The texts are from the curatorial audio and the descriptive audio of the Mask Wall.

Grand hall of the museum with the figures of the cuadrillas and a mural at the back
  1. Entrance to the Cachaceros exhibition room

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    One of the most representative cuadrillas

    Welcome to the room of the Cachaceros. In this room we find one of the most representative cuadrillas of San Martín.

  2. Wall of framed drawings of masks above a red wainscot

    02 / 06 · Cachacero Mask Wall

    A shape, an expression, a strength of its own

    This wall brings together different masks of the Cachaceros. Each one has its own shape, expression and strength.

  3. A Cachacero costume with lances on a pedestal

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    Body, wilderness, humor, tension and transformation

    Their presence evokes Afro-descendant memories, bonds with the land, the struggle for dignity, and that desire for freedom that never disappears: each material speaks of body, wilderness, humor, tension and transformation.

  4. Close-up of a carved wooden mask

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    The mask transforms the cuadrillero

    The mask does not merely hide a face: it turns the cuadrillero into a character, into memory and into a stage presence.

  5. Wooden trays with horns, seeds and pieces of bone

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    Skins, seeds, fibers, ashes, bones and shells

    The masks and costumes of the Cachaceros incorporate natural elements; skins, seeds, fibers, ashes, bones and shells give an almost magical shape to beings of a visual presence that bewitches.

  6. Grand hall with the figures of the cuadrillas and a mural at the back

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    Mask, sound and earth

    In this room, tradition becomes mask, sound and earth.

    Next: Guahibos Room
End of the tour

Curatorial audio

Cachaceros Room

Audio in preparation

Audio text

Welcome to the room of the Cachaceros.

In this room we find one of the most representative cuadrillas of San Martín.

The masks and costumes of the Cachaceros incorporate natural elements; skins, seeds, fibers, ashes, bones and shells give an almost magical shape to beings of a visual presence that bewitches, linking theatrical tradition with cultural and territorial resistance.

Their presence evokes Afro-descendant memories, bonds with the land, the struggle for dignity, and that desire for freedom that never disappears: each material speaks of body, wilderness, humor, tension and transformation.

In this room, tradition becomes mask, sound and earth.

Piece in the room

Each piece has a short descriptive audio. The extended file and 3D model will be published once the curatorial team delivers them.

Cachaceros Room

Cachacero Mask Wall

Short descriptive audio

This wall brings together different masks of the Cachaceros.

Each one has its own shape, expression and strength. Some look like animals of the wilderness; others, presences born of earth, fiber, bone, ash and popular imagination.

The mask does not merely hide a face: it turns the cuadrillero into a character, into memory and into a stage presence.

Seeing them together, we understand that there is no single way of being a Cachacero. Each mask holds a story, a hand that made it and a different way of appearing in the plaza.

Audio in preparation

Extended file and 3D model: in preparation.

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