Project for a Masquerade

"Simon Starling combines the research skills of an historian and the practical skills of an adventurer with a fertile imagination, to trace the routes things take.... Starling takes the opportunity of this Hiroshima exhibition to explore the multiple visages of Henry Moore's 'Atom Piece', penetrating politics, art, and the nuclear issue to reveal the connection that ultimately brought the work to Hiroshima" - Yukie Kamiya

"'Project for a Masquerade (Hiroshima)' presents nine characters in two interrelated forms - in the first instance in the form of six carved wooden masks, two cast bronze masks and a hat, and in the second, in the context of a newly completed film. This cast of characters has been assembled for the proposed performance of a sixteenth century Noh play, 'Eboshi-ori', the story of a young noble boy who, with the help of a hat maker, disguises himself to escape his torrid and unhappy past and begin a new life in the east of Japan." - Simon Starling