Carmen Schabracq
I think masks are so beautiful. How you can take on a different identity and hide your own, even if it's only for a moment.
Carmen Schabracq (1988, Netherlands) works in various media, she makes paintings, sculptural objects, masks and performances in which the theatricality of life plays an important role. She collects stories from different myths, traditions, her own experiences and uses them to recreate collage like visual narratives. The mask is a recurrent object and theme within her work, which she uses to explore the complexity of human identity. A mask is a tool within a ritual or performance, to become 'the other' and she plays with it in different ways. Her work is also a form of escapism with the characters she places in jungles of colors. To escape from this world and imagine yourself in another, full of color, playfulness and humor, in order to deal with the reality of life and death.
