At face Value, 2025.

“At Face Value” can mean taking something literally, without questioning it. But these self-portraits aren’t straightforward; they’re blurred, distorted and deliberately unreliable. If someone tried to take them at “face value,” they'd miss the point entirely. Instead of focusing on what’s visible on the surface, the work looks beneath it: self-perception, distortion, identity, and the unpredictability of “truth” in a portrait. This series plays with the absurdity of seeing a self-portrait as just a face, and asks: how much of identity lives on the surface? How much is projection? And how much of it exists only because of the way we choose to look at it?