Observed arrival · 2026-09-11
False Salvator Mundi, by Sebastian Nasta
An artist’s documented oil painting process turns a hyperreal portrait into an erased face, a glass jar of removed paint, and a surface covered in painted pseudo-code.
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False Salvator Mundi is documented as a 257 × 206 cm oil painting made between 2022 and 2024. The artist reports approximately 3,800 hours of work and 141 brushes, then describes scratching the painted face from the linen and preserving the fragments in a glass jar. The remaining surface carries painted pseudo-code organized around identity, body, behavior, and social visibility, while the site also records studio process and before-and-after details.
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