Silver gelatin print, Emulsion painting, Chinese ink, Pastel on cloth, 125 x 200 cm.
“… For the ‘portraits and masks’, printed on canvas and mounted on frames, the large formats create a dialogue, in a kind of reversed duality, between superb traditional wooden masks and portraits of Tibetans wearing masks brought to them by the Chinese and which become more like gags than means of protection. Alternating black and white backgrounds in the tradition of ‘Yin and Yang’, they assert themselves as contemporary objects whose roots are to be found in ancient cultures. […] Through these rigorous, intelligent portraits, Gao Bo asks us to join him in thinking about the future of the Tibetans and their culture. Silently and intensely.”
Christian Caujolle, 2003.