Series
Stratified Faces 2019
Stratified Faces is an earlier body of work by Maurizio Valch, developed from 2019 onward. In this series, the face appears as divided territory. The portraits are built through planes, fragments, cuts and chromatic sections, suggesting identity as something layered rather than fixed. These works explore gaze, presence, inner states and symbolic fragmentation. The human face becomes a field of strata: a surface where perception, memory and structure are divided into visible layers. Seen from Valch’s current practice, Stratified Faces anticipates the later language of territory, fault lines and sedimented structure. What appears here as a fragmented face will later expand into landscape, horizon and ground frequency.
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Maurizio Valch