Through drawing, painting, photography, and sculpture, La máscara asumida explores ideas of appearance, skin, and the body as sites of becoming and transformation. The show takes up the genre of portraiture to consider appearance as a series of transformations that depend on the mediated relationship between observer and observed. This relationship informs our worldview, where the face marks someone as a pop cultural celebrity worthy of adoration or mythologically as a dangerous and seductive being, a different type of celebrity. La máscara asumida resamples previously unexhibited works, as well as works from past exhibitions, to renew our fascination with the genre of portraiture and with appearance as a mask to be assumed.