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What is a portrait, of the self or of the other, meant to convey? Should it capture in lifelike detail every physical attribute of the subject or does it convey something beyond what meets the eye? Does the medium have a bearing on the portrait's impact? The Inner Self sources works of both established as well as emerging artists who explore a variety of dimensions conveyed by the ‘portrait’.

In his late 2010s series of lithographs, entitled “Faces”, Akbar Padamsee chose to not to simply reproduce the face of a known subject, rather, the faces he chose to portray were born of his …