The Mask Never Lies

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Image courtesy of CCCB

Can a symbol as powerful as the mask help to explain the history of our times?

Based on the book by Servando Rocha Algunas cosas oscuras y peligrosas. El libro de la máscara y los enmascarados (Certain Dark and Dangerous Things: The Book of Masks and the Masked), this exhibition offers an underground history of the last century and a half as told from behind a demystified mask. A mask capable of penetrating into the political landscape as an instrument at the service of perverse wielding of power or as a tool for constructing identities within political activism and social struggle. From the Ku Klux Klan to Pussy Riot, we thus observe a heterogeneous repertoire of masked faces behind which not only identity is hidden, but indeed the very origins of certain era-defining phenomena, be it fake news, paranoid conspiracy theories or the workings of biopolitical control.

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