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By Le Pham Xuan Nga
Unique
Painted shortly before a friend and former colleague left London for a three-month ceramics residency in Shigaraki, Japan, this work is part of a series of small portraits that deliberately leave out the face. Each person is identified through a combination of age, place, profession, and the small details that make them recognisable to those who know them, while leaving enough unsaid for strangers to invent their own version of who might be behind the portrait.
The series explores how little we need to know about someone to recognise them or to feel that we do.
By Le Pham Xuan Nga
Unique
Painted shortly before a friend and former colleague left London for a three-month ceramics residency in Shigaraki, Japan, this work is part of a series of small portraits that deliberately leave out the face. Each person is identified through a combination of age, place, profession, and the small details that make them recognisable to those who know them, while leaving enough unsaid for strangers to invent their own version of who might be behind the portrait.
The series explores how little we need to know about someone to recognise them or to feel that we do.