A curation by Natalie Slater, Curator at Singulart - Each portrait in this selection feels caught between appearance and revision. Rather than describing a likeness with precision, Claudia Mächler builds her subjects through layered brushwork, allowing passages of paint to conceal, interrupt, and reshape the face. Features emerge only to dissolve again beneath broad gestures and shifting color. Seen together, the paintings suggest that identity is never singular or fixed. Expression is constructed through accumulation, with each mark adding another register of emotion rather than resolving it. The result is a body of work that treats portraiture as an ongoing process instead of a finished image.