A curation by Natalie Slater, Curator at Singulart - This curatorial selection brings together works by German-Italian artist Tanja Hirschfeld, whose portraits exist somewhere between reality, memory, and invention. Drawing from a range of visual traditions, Hirschfeld creates figures that feel both familiar and elusive, often obscuring identity through masks, costume, gesture, and transformation. Across the works, the face is rarely presented as a fixed point. Figures turn away, dissolve into paint, adopt alternate personas, or carry symbols that complicate any singular reading of who they are. Rather than offering straightforward portraits, Hirschfeld constructs characters that exist in a space between cultures, histories, and imagined narratives. What remains constant is a sense of presence. Whether rendered with delicate restraint or theatrical intensity, these figures invite viewers to consider identity as something fluid—shaped as much by what is concealed as by what is revealed.