X-Ray Paintings

X-ray Paintings is a project that brings to light artworks discovered beneath existing paintings through radiographic imaging. It interrogates notions of authorship and originality and opens a dialogue between what is concealed within underlying layers and what remains visible on the surface—between what was presumed forgotten and what endures.

Multiple versions of the same painting are produced, each matching the original’s dimensions, alongside commissioned reproductions of its ‘current’ frame.

Portrait of a woman seated (after Vincent Van Gogh) - Version 1
UV screen-print and oil paint on canvas and commissioned frame
42.5 x 32 cm
2019
© Raul Ortega Ayala, All Rights Reserved

Portrait of a woman seated (after Vincent Van Gogh) - Version 2
UV screen-print and oil paint on canvas and commissioned frame
42.5 x 32 cm
2019
© Raul Ortega Ayala, All Rights Reserved