Online (international juried, 28 Mar – 28 May 2026). While the piece is on view, sale inquiries may route via the venue. Happy to introduce you directly via the form below.
About the work
A suited figure at the center, surrounded by six distinct faces: grinning, cold, seductive, furious, calculating, feral.
These are not other people. They are the same person across different situations, different needs, different rooms. We learn early which face produces which result, and we get very good at moving between them.
The painting does not judge this. It simply asks, honestly, whether there is a face underneath that belongs to nobody but you.
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Studio view
Suited figure ringed by six masks of self: grinning, cold, seductive, furious, calculating, feral.
Details
Detail: the feral mask, black calligraphic strokes carving a snarl from molten orange.
In the studio
Payal Agarwal beside The Repertoire on the easel, studio in raw concrete.The artist's hand refining the grinning mask's jagged smile mid-brushstroke.Payal at work on the cold feline mask, brush loaded with cadmium yellow.