09/11/2024 - Pei Wang: The Enneagram Mask
London
Pei Wang: The Enneagram Mask
Workplace
Until 09 November 2024
The ‘extreme close-up’ is a technique which cinema has long employed to reveal more than the human eye might normally see – a device to build empathy between the viewer and the protagonist in the service of a constructed narrative. In the work of Pei Wang, tightly cropped faces are rendered on canvas with meticulous and unwavering detail.