A curation by Natalie Slater, Curator at Singulart - In ‘Vision Defect,’ Dorota Kwiatkowska approaches portraiture as a problem of perception rather than likeness. Faces are split, misaligned, and layered into multiple viewpoints. Features overlap. Eyes double. Profiles interrupt frontal gazes. What emerges is not distortion for effect, but an attempt to approximate unstable vision — the way an image lingers, shifts, or fractures before settling. Despite the fragmentation, the figures remain identifiable. Strong contour lines anchor the compositions, preventing collapse. The tension between disruption and structure is central: the portraits hold together even as they resist a singular perspective. Drawing loosely from Cubist strategies while remaining distinctly personal, Kwiatkowska treats visual impairment not as absence, but as alternative clarity. The “defect” becomes method. The image reflects not how a face should appear, but how it is actually seen.