Lita Cabellut, 'Layered Identities'

Opera Gallery Singapore

22 May - 07 June 2026

Opera Gallery is pleased to present 'Layered Identities', a new exhibition by Lita Cabellut, marking the continuation of a long-standing and valued collaboration with the artist.

Through this latest series, Lita Cabellut offers a reflection on contemporary portraiture, inviting viewers to a deeper awareness of the fragmented and globalized reality in which we live. Cabellut’s visual language combining technical rigor with expressive intensity, creates a tension between meticulous figuration and gestural intervention. Faces emerge and dissolve, marked by fractures that convey the passage of time and accumulated experience.

Interrogation of the contemporary self

The portraits in 'Layered Identities' resist any single interpretation, presenting identity as a complex, multilayered system. Each figure appears both singular and part of a broader fabric, reflecting a contemporary condition in which affiliations and references multiply. The multicultural dimension, suggested by the diversity of subjects—spanning Western identifiers like Finn to those suggestive of broader global origins like Rocio and Yara—mirrors a world where traditional silos of ethnicity are being replaced by a complex, globalised sense of belonging.

Materiality and fragmentation

Cabellut’s painting develops through a sophisticated exploration of materiality, where a restrained palette of earthy ochres and siennas provides a solid, organic structure. On this surface, sudden chromatic ruptures and graphic interventions introduce tension and instability, evoking the sensory overload of contemporary life. These interferences complicate the reading of the subjects, suggesting how identity is constantly rewritten or influenced by external forces, never reaching a fixed outcome.