Disguise: Masks and Global African Art on view at the Brooklyn Museum.

Disguise: Masks and Global African Art connects the work of twenty-five contemporary artists with historical African masquerade, using play and provocation to invite viewers to think critically about their world and their place within it. By putting on a mask and becoming someone else, artists reveal hidden realities about society, including those of power, class, and gender, to suggest possibilities for the future.

This exhibition is on view until September 18, 2016.

Go to our website for more information on the exhibition.

www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/disguise_masks_global_african_art

Photo credit/caption: Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou (Beninese, born 1965). Untitled, Egungun Series, 2011. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Bell Gallery , London. copyright Leonce Agbodjelou.