MEA CULPA

 

The title Mea Culpa, meaning “my fault” in Latin, introduces the work as a reflection on guilt, responsibility, and self-confrontation. These are not masks of disguise, but masks of exposure—moments where pain cannot be hidden. By casting his own face repeatedly, Cabbar transforms self-portraiture into an act of confession, where suffering becomes both personal and universal.​​

Like traditional death masks made of plaster, the works preserve a moment suspended in time, but here they suggest an emotional archaeology of the living. The project moves between punishment and acceptance, memory and self-examination, asking how much of human pain is inherited, chosen, or silently carried. Mea Culpa becomes both an admission and a question—an intimate study of the face as a site of burden, endurance, and truth.