Polychrome Wooden Masks – The Faces of the Invisible A Dream, A Vision “I had a dream…” This is how the story accompanying M. Valoti‘s series, Polychrome Wooden Masks, begins. A dream in which the artist walks through a primordial forest, filled with whispers, rustling sounds, and mysterious presences—a place teeming with life. Then, suddenly, an eerie silence falls. A void, an overwhelming solitude. At the edge of the forest, a trap is set. A vast net, cast by men, ensnares masks. The artist, like a fisherman, pulls the net and discovers these frozen faces, held captive in their bonds. One by one, he frees them, observes them, and names…