Second Soul

  1. Mask no.1papier-mâché, collage, silkscreen, etching, 89x59
  2. Mask no.2papier-mâché, collage, silkscreen, etching, 89x59
  3. Mask no.4papier-mâché, collage, silkscreen, etching, 89x59
  4. Nine warriorspapier-mâché, collage, silkscreen, etching
  5. Warriorpapier-mâché, collage, silkscreen, etching, 89x59
  6. Lialinpapier-mâché, collage, silkscreen, etching, 89x59
  7. Graffitipapier-mâché, collage, silkscreen, etching, 89x59
  8. Mask no.8426papier-mâché, collage, silkscreen, etching, 89x59
  9. Zachempapier-mache, collage, silkscreen, etching, 89x59
  10. Lighting Mask “Mao”in cooperation with Andrei Vasiliev,
    mixed techniques, 102x62
Second Soul

The Second Soul project by Anna Taguti

The Second Soul project by Anna Taguti is based on the beliefs of Etruscans, as well as similar funeral traditions of Siberian and Mongolian shamans, who believed that every human has three souls after his death.

The second soul, having undergone a painful process of atonement, used to be depicted as a burial mask resembling the deceased’s face.

The project consists of 18 such masks of different sizes, made of mould paper mass with collage of etched sheets. Each of them is a separate individual image. Each of them has its own painful experience of rebirth. The objects are supplemented with large black and white photographic portraits.

Burial masks in Etruria and Khakassia might have been our own; we may be studying our own burials and looking at our own images in a museum somewhere in Minusinsk.