Sacred Search.

In the images below, an artist by the name of Frederique Daubal (Hide and Seek, May 27^th 2010) cuts out pages from various fashion magazines and uses them as sliced masks to make a statement about visual identity and perception.
Every face seems to tell a story. 
The series of images below leaves you pondering what those stories are.

In my opinion, some beings are secretly in search of an identity not enlightening their real individuality. People – not only models or fashion designers wear masks for various reasons. Fashion designers might use the masks to play a game with the audience. The mask represents a “cultural obsession”, resembling the Muslim niqābs. In the video below people give their individual opinions on the "veil" and the "veil unveiled".

The mask project is a statement on identity. Revealing your true identity lays concern on your place in life. Embracing and processing your proper uniqueness, influences how other beings might react and respond to you. The slices in the predetermined facial expression, presents the model with the ability to view and explore the expressions and judgements of the society.

According to a further reading posted by Ian in Faces, Identity, and Photographs: Hide and Seek by Frederique Daubal, posted on 7 June 2010, it can be asked: when does your face become a mask? If you could wear the same expression continuously, and only change it when you want to, would you? 
I can not tell you what inspired Frederique Daubal in this work, but I can tell you of what it evokes in me. The idea of wearing photographs as masks is not new, but this application is. The cut slits make the work seem almost like venetian blinds to me. Both the subject matter and the model peek out towards the camera, hidden behind a mask. As the facial expression is predetermined, everything is about body language, and that makes for a very interesting study. 

Further reading: Faces, Identity and Photographs.