GEN1.15+23.3

GEN1 represents the first generation of XXY Portraits: an origin point, a reduced visual alphabet from which the entire series unfolds.

The face is progressively simplified until it becomes a sign.

The gaze—historically the core of portraiture—is removed and replaced by XX or XY, shifting identity from psychological expression to a neutral, biological classification. What remains is not the individual, but a symbolic surface: the ego flattened into an abstract field.

Executed in gesso and gold leaf on a wooden panel (20 × 30 cm), this work functions as an original fragment and generative matrix of the series. The material tension between the rawness of gesso and the iconic, almost sacred presence of gold reinforces the work’s conceptual axis: the coexistence of reduction and elevation, anonymity and monumentality.