THE ETHNO. Corona, 36
Saying "missed" instead of "died" is a crude euphemism that we have absolutely integrated into our everyday speech, and there is nothing innocent about it, says a lot about the relationship that, since the arrival of modernity, we have in the West with death. A taboo increasingly cornered in our lives, hidden, silenced and now too, adulterated. And it is that, hui, subjects die more physically than socially, so that the significant density of death is reduced to a strictly biological circumstance. The new L'Etno exhibition, Miss or die, investigates what death means for the group experiencing the loss of one of its members, identifying the collective representations and ritual practices with which the subjects give it meaning. AU
