The works in Disguise: Masks and Global African Art are organized around the idea that masquerade is
The works in Disguise: Masks and Global African Art are organized around the idea that masquerade is always an art of becoming.Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou has developed his own unique aesthetic, experimenting with a variety of camera formats and printing processes. His compositions are at once evocative of ethnographic or museological “types” and reflections of everyday Beninois life, but always with a heightened, almost surrealistic edge—much like the experience of masquerade itself.Posted by Kevin D. Dumouchelle and Meghan BillLeonce Raphael Agbodjélou (Beninese, born 1965). Untitled, Egungun Series, 2011. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Bell Gallery, London. © Leonce Agbodjélou. Photo: Courtesy of Jack Bell Gallery, London -- source link
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