A curation by Natalie Slater, Curator at Singulart - In her series ‘De Profundis,’ Isabelle Philips-Decramer concentrates on the human figure under pressure. Faces are compressed within shallow space. Eyes are exaggerated. Bodies are reduced to simplified planes of saturated color. There is no narrative framework and little environmental detail. The encounter is direct. The series examines interior states without theatricality. Doubt, hesitation, unease — these conditions register through proximity and repetition rather than gesture. Figures cluster, lean, or confront the viewer, suspended within dense fields of blue, red, and green. Color functions structurally. Dark passages absorb light; luminous areas resist them. The tension between compression and exposure anchors each composition. Though the works are intimate in scale, the repetition of faces shifts the reading from singular portrait to shared condition. Individual identity remains, but it is destabilized through grouping and proximity.