The MASI venue at the LAC is hosting Credere alle Maschere, a performance by Romeo Castellucci centred on the mask – a synecdoche for theatre – which transforms the act of seeing into a collective and radical experience made up of words, objects and images.

An iconic object of theatre, the mask does not take on a symbolic value here: it does not conceal, but reveals. The collection of faces forms a plural figure, almost a people. The space allows one to look and be looked at, intensifying the reciprocal relationship to the utmost.
Romeo Castellucci – winner of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale – continues and radicalises his exploration of the relationship between image and law, and between linguistic violence and structural complicity. The performance shifts the focus of the action onto the spectator’s body, calling upon them not only to participate but to be directly involved.
Each spectator is given a hyper-realistic mask, unique and assigned at random.