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What Beauty Promises. What It hides.

Tereza Barnard paints the quiet pressure beneath performance.
From the composure of beauty queens to still lifes caught mid-misdemeanor,
her realism lingers on the edge of collapse.

Every painting starts in control.
Every painting leaves room for something to slip through.
Humour, discomfort, a smirk in the silverware.

For collectors who know beauty isn’t the whole story.

  • Hopes (2022), 120 x 100 cm, oil on aluminium panel

    A small gesture.
    A bigger question.

    What’s promised?
    What’s withheld?

    The pose holds. You decide why.

  • Pressure (2024), 70 x 60 cm, oil on aluminium panel

    Styled to perfection.
    Almost.

    Look closer.
    Something slips.

  • Comparisons (2023), 60x 70 cm, oil on aluminium panel

    A ribbon. A perfect pose.

    Is she measuring up,

    or measuring herself down?