The mask is a form inseparably bound up with human culture.

It can be object and subject. An ideological model, an archetype, an extension of the body. The mask is a form of tribal belonging, a fact that takes on new meaning during the ongoing pandemic.

Michał Żabko-Potopowicz presents us with maquettes / models of sixteen masks.

These are masks stripped of their function. Sculptures focused on frontal expression. Forms approaching folk art / art brut, but zeroed out with white.

These primitive, raw objects are made on the scale of a slightly enlarged portrait, a theatrical or ritual mask. Each of the sculptures has a unique character of formal features that are fully open to interpretation.

The series was made in 2007.