Masters of Disguise

Artego Gallery is pleased to announce Masters of Disguise, an exhibition featuring three contemporary Korean photographers whose practices revolve around masquerading in self-portraits: Chan-Hyo Bae, Jung S Kim, and Youngho Kang. These artists investigate hybridization of cultures in our age of globalization. Employing masquerade to explore their individual personas, they design props, costumes, make-up, and hairdos to create staged images. Fluidity and artificiality, as manifested by ever-changing appearances, draw attention to the superficiality of biological and cultural markers. By blurring the boundaries of gender and race, these artists challenge and destabilize conventional notions of culture, race, and gender as determinants of personal identity.