The MASI venue at the LAC is hosting Credere alle Maschere, a site-specific performance by Romeo Castellucci in which each audience member is given a unique mask to wear, transforming the viewing experience into a radical, collective encounter with words, objects and images.

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 person is given a hyper-realistic mask, unique and assigned at random. An iconic object of the theatre, the mask does not take on a symbolic value here: it does not conceal, but exposes. The collection of faces forms a plural figure, almost a people. The horseshoe-shaped space allows one to look and be looked at, intensifying the mutual relationship to the utmost.