Surreptitious Stripes brings together two polyptychs from the series An Aesthetic Register of Covert Forces by the Cuban artist Francisco Masó. The works are based on documentary photographs and videos showing regulatory mechanisms in Cuban civil society. Masó develops an abstract geometric register from polo shirts imported by the government and distributed to workers of various political bodies. Textile designs consisting mostly of horizontal lines become, in essence, undercover uniforms, even when they are not identified as such by the public. This strategy builds an invisible net of power, exposed in the Register. The works shown have been conceived as two twenty-page volumes that formulate a narrative about the tensions generated by a totalitarian practice—utilizing hidden agents to confuse the public and deter resistance.