'Masquerade' is the new photograph and media art exhibition which is focused on performance after 1990s which have tried self-strain, disguise and role-play with reflecting myth, history, text of art history and pop culture. Changing one's own gender, nationality, race and class to another one, and crossing self and others, male and female and human and unrealistic existence, persona performance has raised a question of ambiguous and open-minded existence, traced a flow of politics, and united in issues of post modernism. 
Based on disguise, 16 selected artists are performance artist, actor/actress, photographer, director, designer or singer, who have discharged multi-roles in their lives. They expose inner variability, liquidity and stability under the name of art, and like to perform deconstruction and dissolution with pleasure. As non-place and formless people, they are called as 'chameleon artists'. 
As Mikhail Bakhtin mentioned, 'masquerade' is related to 'Carnival' which can resist for social norms and set emotion free. As artists change their roles as writer, director and actor/actress, and participate in their own creative drama, 'Masquerade' shows real liberation from order and suppression. 

Artists:
Eleanor Antin (U.S.A), Charles Atlas (U.S.A), Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz (Germany), Leigh Bowery (Austrailia), Alison Jackson (U.K), Dick Jewell (U.K), Youngho Kang (Korea), John Kelly (U.S.A), Katarzyna Kozyra (Poland), Nikki S. Lee (Korea), Christopher Makos (U.S.A), Yasumasa Morimura (Japan), Tomoko Sawada (Japan), Jack Smith (U.S.A), Ming Wong (Singapore)

*image: Summertale, single channel video, 19' 58", 2008
            by Katarzyna Kozyra (b.1963)