Series · preview · 2019–2023
Stratified Faces
About this series
Stratified Faces explores identity through fragmented faces, repeated gazes, and layered geometric planes. Each portrait appears as a composite presence shaped by memory, contradiction, and multiple inner selves, transforming the human face into a psychological and symbolic territory.
Stratified Faces is a series of figurative paintings that explores identity as a layered, divided, and continually reconstructed presence. The faces are built through geometric planes, contrasting colors, repeated eyes, and fragmented features that suggest multiple states of being within a single figure.
Rather than presenting the portrait as a stable representation, the series treats the face as a psychological territory. Each work appears to contain different memories, emotions, contradictions, and versions of the self. The repeated gaze becomes especially important: the eyes observe, confront, and multiply, creating the sense that identity is never singular or complete.
The fragmented structures do not destroy the figure; they reveal its complexity. Individual parts remain distinct while forming a larger presence, suggesting that personality is shaped by accumulation, rupture, memory, and transformation. In this way, the portraits move between intimacy and distance, recognition and ambiguity.
Through strong composition, symbolic repetition, and layered construction, Stratified Faces transforms the human face into a map of inner multiplicity. The series reflects on how identity is formed not as a fixed image, but as a living structure made of many overlapping selves.
Rather than presenting the portrait as a stable representation, the series treats the face as a psychological territory. Each work appears to contain different memories, emotions, contradictions, and versions of the self. The repeated gaze becomes especially important: the eyes observe, confront, and multiply, creating the sense that identity is never singular or complete.
The fragmented structures do not destroy the figure; they reveal its complexity. Individual parts remain distinct while forming a larger presence, suggesting that personality is shaped by accumulation, rupture, memory, and transformation. In this way, the portraits move between intimacy and distance, recognition and ambiguity.
Through strong composition, symbolic repetition, and layered construction, Stratified Faces transforms the human face into a map of inner multiplicity. The series reflects on how identity is formed not as a fixed image, but as a living structure made of many overlapping selves.