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Usually, the purpose of a portrait is to capture the essence of itssitter – to capture something truly personal and truly human about them and commit it to canvas. This is what one sees in Crystel Ceresa’s portraits at first glance: Colorful, well-defined personalities, each with their own way of standing out in the crowd, all ready to meet the viewer’s gaze – people whosepresence is literally larger than life. But, as it turns out, this is only part of the truth.

Crystel Ceresa does not paint people that she knows – instead, the portraits of the exhibition Lucky Escape depict photos of …