A curation by Natalie Slater, Curator at Singulart - 'Faces from Elsewhere' brings together portraits and figure studies in which identity slips beyond recognition. Across the selection, faces are stretched, fractured, flattened, or exaggerated into forms that hover between person, mask, and apparition. Rather than pursuing likeness in any traditional sense, these works operate through a more unstable kind of presence—psychological, symbolic, and at times quietly theatrical. Each artist approaches the face as a mutable structure. Features shift out of proportion, color unsettles naturalism, and expression is carried through distortion rather than precision. These figures remain unmistakably human, yet resist easy placement, existing in a space between familiarity and estrangement. Taken together, the curation examines portraiture at the point where character becomes invention. The face is no longer a fixed site of identity, but a surface through which emotion, memory, humor, and unease are continuously rewritten.