Family Album

This monochrome tableau stages a family portrait as a charged theater of concealment: masked faces and ceremonious dress gather beneath the looming pelt, a domestic trophy that turns the room into a site of inherited menace and guarded pride. The composition tightens like a vignette—figures pressed forward by dense blacks—while the stark whites of fabric and architecture flicker as fragile sanctuaries against an encroaching shadow. Ornamental interiors and cutout-like edges read as memory’s collage, suggesting how lineage can be curated, edited, and performed, even as the gaze behind each mask insists on an unspoken history. The work quietly asks whether identity here is protection, complicity, or survival—an intimacy made uncanny by the very rituals meant to preserve it.