The Ostillo Foundation’s inaugural exhibition, “Masquerade”, brings together work from some of the leading figures in the world of contemporary art. Comprising works dating from the 1970s to the present day – some of which are being exhibited in the United States for the first time – the exhibition brings together radically different forms. Whether conveyed through paintings, weavings, sculptures or photographs, the figures on display in “Masquerade” are smiling, grimacing, confrontational, allusive, dark, multicoloured, whole or incomplete. This combination speaks to a culture of entertainment as much as other quotidian, ritualized or enigmatic practices. The complex relationships between make-up and painting, identities and appearances, faces and masks, are unravelled and renegotiated in this exhibition, which speaks more to resonance than direct connections.