Provenance: Provenance: Private Collection, Singapore

ABOUT THE WORK

Approaching portraiture through the language of graphic arts, Maya Muñoz evokes a face not as a conveyor of identity or emotion but a slate of symbols connected to the sitter. Stars, spirals, and other more gestural strokes replace the eyes, the nose, the mouth, the ear — the seats of the senses — reducing the face into an enclosed system of signs. No human agency may be able to decode the face that has been turned into something mechanical, if not digital, akin to the masks that our avatars assume in the rarefied space of social media.