This collection brings together four distinctive voices who each disrupt the conventions of figuration in their own way. Rather than treating the human form as a fixed subject, they transform it into a site for narrative, critique, and experimentation.

Aly Helyer’s Tell Tale Lover channels psychological intensity, where elongated bodies and mask-like faces become vessels of inner conflict. Aryo Toh Djojo, in You’re Not Ugly, You’re Just Broke, veils the figure in blurred photorealism, dissolving the boundary between portraiture and cinematic atmosphere, hinting at themes of status and invisibility.

Marco Scarpi’s Figlio di Iared merges classical archetypes with abstraction — a winged presence that hovers between myth and contemporary rupture. In sharp contrast, Miguel Payano’s Summer Heat injects absurdist humor into figuration, presenting a mass of head-like forms that are playful yet uncanny, satirizing ideas of collective identity.

Taken together, these works move beyond representation to open figuration toward new possibilities — fractured, mythic, surreal, and intimate. Each artist challenges the figure’s limits, offering a reimagined vocabulary for painting in the present.