Disguise mask

Disguise mask
Pot scrubs and wire and video
90 cm x 23 cm x 38 cm | 59 seconds

This wearable sculpture explores the artist’s personal trauma related to her encounter with gender based violence. The suspended mask has a performative aspect, wherein the audience is invited to insert their heads into the headdress for a momentary taste of the suffering the artist carries with her daily. By universalising her trauma, Moloto not only releases some of her own pent up sadness and depression, but also visually encrypts an aesthetic of pain into the steel wool form. Though cathartic in some respects, Disguise mask is a crown of trauma, which the artist adorns with mixed feelings of remorse and false pride.