Tomáš Garrique Masaryk, scientist, philosopher, pedagogue, journalist, and founder of Czechoslovakia, was born in 1850 in Moravia (former Austro-Hungarian Empire). He is regarded as one of the most significant Czechoslovak characters. In 1936 the «Avenida de la Hacienda» in Polanco, was renamed «Avenida Presidente Masaryk» by the Mexican president Lázaro Cárdenas. The community in this area and Cárde-nas himself appreciated the human rights work and the Czechoslovak president’s ad-vanced democratic discourse.

After that, over a century, several sites were named, in “honor” of the Czechoslovak president; from schools, parks, to clothing shops, food shops, pubs, pubs, and night-clubs. These establishments were displacing the old family environment of the commu-nity in favor of luxury transactional businesses while displacing the “historical signifiers” of the character.

It is until the year 2000 that a statue of Masaryk donated by Prague is unveiled. This image of Masaryk was intended to generate the utopian ideal of the global commu-nity from diplomatic relations aimed at “virtual” proximity contradictory and dissimilar that are deprived of a real experience of reciprocity and whose meanings vanish in the distance.

MASARYK PROJECT reflects on these imaginaries and meanings and tries to construct an image of Masaryk, from fiction, but also contradictory symbolic interbreeding.

The portraits were made in the form of “spoken portraits”, according to various in-terviewees, which constructed a “different imaginary”, disparate, and in most cases erroneous, of the figure of “President Masaryk”.