Mexico: Day of the Dead installation in honour of COVID-19 victims in Mexico City

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A lively altar celebrating the pre-Hispanic tradition of the Day of the Dead was set up at Tolsa Square in Mexico City on Thursday, in honour of the victims lost to COVID-19.
The National Museum of Art and the Secretariat of Culture organised an interactive installation in front of the museum with painted skulls, statutes, and food offerings. Everyone is welcome to place a candle, portrait, or flower to remember those who passed away from the virus.
The emblematic figure of the Day of the Dead, ‘La Catrina,’ a tall female skeleton dressed in costume and feathers, walked around the offering, placing flowers.
“They say that the only thing left for those of us who persist here in life is to celebrate, to live because it is the only way we have to honour the people who were lost,” said Regina Reyes Huerta, who lost her nephew to COVID-19.
The Day of the Dead includes many stages and extends over several days, starting on October 27 and ending on November 2. Each day celebrates a different type of soul or loss. October 28 commemorates people who died from an accident or a disease.
The Director of the National Museum of Art, Carmen Gaytan Rojo, commented, “Tonight, these three days begin, because it lasts until November 2nd, these three days in which the public will come and place at the memorial their candle, their flower, their touch, and show that they are thinking of the one who departed and they are paying tribute to them.”
The offering is part of several activities that will be carried out for the Day of the Dead festivities, which return to the city after a year of cancellations due to the pandemic.

SOT, Regina Reyes Huerta, Relative of person lost to COVID (Spanish): “I lost an incredibly beautiful person, a 31-year-old young man who died from COVID.”

SOT, Regina Reyes Huerta, Relative of person lost to COVID (Spanish): “It takes a lot of work to enter the state of mind of this celebration, since the pain is so big and I can’t imagine, in my case, losing a relative. There are families that have lost 15, 17 or 18 relatives and I say this is hard to bear.”

SOT, Regina Reyes Huerta, Relative of person lost to COVID (Spanish): “I think this celebration is going to be a half and a half. A celebration, of course, and a half where we will have to honour the memory of those gone. They say that the only thing left for those of us who persist here in life is to celebrate, to live, because it is the only way we have to honour the people who were lost.”

SOT, Carmen Gaytan Rojo, Director of National Museum of Art (Spanish): “To pay tribute to all those who left us during this pandemic, that have touched all of us in the deepest: the country, the economy, our government, obviously, the culture. But even though us Mexicans have a very creative way of paying homage to those who have left us early. It is through our altars of the dead.”

SOT, Carmen Gaytan Rojo, Director of National Museum of Art (Spanish): “I think it is a great pleasure and I celebrate that today. Tonight, these three days begin, because it lasts until November 2, these three days in which the public will come and place at the memorial their candle, their flower, their touch, and show that they are thinking of the one who departed and they are paying tribute to them.”

SOT, Carmen Gaytan Rojo, Director of National Museum of Art (Spanish): “It is a dual celebration. On the one hand, the celebration is saying it in the same word, it has a ‘party’ connotation, but we all know that deep down inside, we carry a tear, with sorrow, with a prayer, with a thought directed towards those who had to leave in such a way. Well, pain, suffering, through this disease that we have had to live through in the entire universe.”
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