"Recognition Layering" is an Orangehare In-House Production that began with a series of painted studio portraits. Real models, real paint, and real hands. From there, the portraits evolve: filtered through AI, tweaked through graphic design, and fused with hand-painted works on paper by Chae Tongyull. The result is a collection of 170 that span six distinct styles but always return to a shared base-layer: Face forward, hands raised. It’s a pose lifted from ancestral portraiture in Korea and China, yet also a modern tell. Drawing hands has long been the bane of aspiring art students, and more recently, the glitchy giveaway of AI. In this way, they become a clue in “Recognition Layering,” a marker of what’s real, what’s rendered, and what exists somewhere underneath and between. Can you recognize the difference?
Each work is assigned traits, ranging from photography and acryllic paintings to full claymation renderings and hybrid experiments.
