Disguise: Masks and Global African Art

Seattle Art Museum

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Contemporary artists from Africa and of African descent explore the impulse to adopt disguises and stage a masquerade by filling the galleries with inventive avatars and provocative new myths, taking us on mysterious journerys through city streets and futuristic landscapes.

Preview the show below

(2011), Edison Chagas.

OIKONOMOS (2011), Edison Chagas. Courtesy of A Palazzo Gallery and the artist

(2011), Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou

Untitled, Egungun Series (2011), Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou © Leonce Agbodjelou. Photo courtesy of Jack Bell Gallery, London

(video; 2010–14), Jakob Dwight

The Autonomous Prism (video; 2010–14), Jakob Dwight © Jakob Dwight, photo courtesy of the artist

(video still; 2013), Saya Woolfalk

Chimera from the Emphatic Series (video still; 2013), Saya Woolfalk © Saya Woolfalk. Photo courtesy Leslie Tonkonow, Artworks + Projects, NY

(2009), Hasan and Husain Essop

The Last Supper in Havana (2009), Hasan and Husain Essop © Hassan and Husain Essop. Photo courtesy of the artist and Goodman Gallery

(2012), Ebony Patterson.

Of 72 Project (2012), Ebony Patterson. Courtesy the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago © the artist