An atlas of masks / 48 objects
FACE
TO FACE.
Carved. Cast. Woven. Worn.
Encounter the faces we make, and the worlds they open.
ON VIEW
Attributed to Kiyova of Luaya Ndambo
Pende style · before 1958
An atlas of masks / 48 objects
Carved. Cast. Woven. Worn.
Encounter the faces we make, and the worlds they open.
ON VIEW
Attributed to Kiyova of Luaya Ndambo
Pende style · before 1958
Performance, power, protection, likeness. A mask changes the relationship between a person and the people looking at them. Start with an object. Follow a material, a place or a maker.
Noh, kyōgen and gigaku. Still objects made for a moving body.
Horns, beaks and monumental forms. Animal identities in carved wood and cloth.
Portraiture, expression and the sculptor’s hand. Masks by named makers.
A full-screen room for a few extraordinary objects. Move across with the arrow keys, or open an image to inspect the surface.