Casa Velazquez with an exhibition on the fragility of life "Fragility of the Ancestral Time"

History and memory enclosed in stone and brick or heritage of rituals and elusive community? About two ways of treating the past - in art and architecture - tells the unusual exhibition "Fragility of the AncestralTime" in Casa Velazquez in the Caribbean Santo Domingo. It is also a bravura display of some of the hottest names in the world art market.

Curators Nicole Bainov and Elsa Maldonaldo Buitron decided not to scatter the

past of Casa Velazquez, but to take a magnifying glass of it and analyze it using the

language of art like an exhibit under a magnifying glass.