École Européene (XX) - Reflet Inquiétant

- Oil on canvas. Original canvas.

- The mirror operates in the psychic experience not as a surface of narcissistic confirmation, but as the threshold where the fracture of one's own identity erupts: it is in that optical reunion where the idealized self crumbles before the intrusion of the ominous, revealing that the truth of our face always shelters a strange and inaccessible core. As you hold the gaze before the mirror, the mechanisms of repression yield and the more unsettling details — an unforeseen asymmetry, the fixation of a pupil, or a shadow of fatigue that evokes finitude — emerge as the return of the repressed, stripping us of the social mask with which we attempt to deceive the world. That untamable reflection confronts us with the gaze of the interior Other, a silent double that returns not the image we wish to project, but the raw evidence of our own enigma and of the drives that secretly govern us.

- Image dimensions without frame: 33 x 31 cm / 53 x 51 cm with exclusive custom frame.

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