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    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Valeska Soares, Doubleface (Cobalt Blue/ English Red), 2019
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    Valeska Soares

    Doubleface (Cobalt Blue/ English Red), 2019
    Oil paint and cutout on vintage oil painting
    34 x 25 7/8 in (86.4 x 65.7 cm)
    VS090

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    In her series of paintings, Doubleface, Valeska Soares sources recovered vintage oil paintings and affixes secondary canvases to their backs which she paints either in monochrome or polychrome, using colors...
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    In her series of paintings, Doubleface, Valeska Soares sources recovered vintage oil paintings and affixes secondary canvases to their backs which she paints either in monochrome or polychrome, using colors connected to the original painting. She then carefully cuts and folds over parts of the original portrait that she finds compelling. In Doubleface (Cobalt Blue/English Red) (2019), Soares reveals the faces of two women. These women are positioned at different heights of the painting, but face slightly towards one another, an incomplete nod to their relationship. Doubleface (Cobalt Blue/English Red) invites the viewer to contemplate not only the identities of the two women and their relationship to one another, but also the history of the physical painting and its object biography. The two women’s faces, now backwards, inverted, and removed from their original shared context, parallel the original portrait’s journey from creation to recreation, recontextualized physically, aesthetically, culturally, and chronologically.

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