“Who am I behind the mask? Who am I in the crowd?”
Hugo Baud is a visual artist born in Montpellier (FR) and based in Berlin (DE). His work refers to figure; to each one’s hidden face. The figure here is social iconography, sex symbol and aesthetic fantasy. By portraying one’s inner self with a style recognized by a strong
expressiveness on the line, his faces, grimaces and characters, whether they are alone or in the middle of a crowd, are here to confront the viewer and to incite each of us to face our own individuality, to challenge and unveil the societal appearances. Who am I behind the mask? Who am I in the crowd? With this great theatre of the persona and its multiple identities, Hugo Baudouin explores the society and collective’s domination processes on one’s self, and how to detach oneself from this hold. His work has been exposed in various international context such as «The Urban Nation museum» in Berlin, Germany or «Guy Hepner» in New York, USA
