Liona X Roy Nachum

This piece is part of Roy Nachum's 'Portraits' Collection.
Roy Nachum’s Portraits an exhibition of five large scale oil paintings - touches on the senses and the absence of one creating the presence of another.
The process split into two parts abstracts both experience and perspective. Part One: The work is extremely labor intensive and in oil paint, Nachum captures every microscopic detail of the human face, each portrait taking him well over a year to paint. Each of his painted subjects are then invited to participate in the completion of the work, by painting their self portrait over his hyperreal depiction of their face. Nachum’s collaborators, who are visually impaired and/or blind, are the integral part of the work. It is only after part two; the individuals participation, that Nachum feels the portraits gather their soul and unearth their raw presence.