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Painting and portraiture are two terms that have been closely linked throughout the history of art and could be considered obsolete in this age defined by the speed of the selfie. However, nothing could be more remote from this last statement than they are. Artists have detected – each in their own way – the pressing contemporary social need to emphasize the presence of the other more calmly and to assert ourselves as more sociable beings than we had thought.

Painters understand – each in their own way – the importance of the face as a mirror, the game of identification, of recognition. They …