With its ambiguous background, inconsistent perspective and disproportion, Doganoglu’s “Bather” reflects the anonymity and ambiguity of modern life experience, in a nod to Cézanne’s iconic “Bather” (1885). The impurity of the surface, achieved through the use of color and the blatancy of brushstrokes, points at once to the materiality of the body depicted, and that of the painting itself. Atmospheric shifts occur on this dual dermis, as the torso – a body fragment, framed as to lose all specific identity - becomes a landscape unevenly reflecting rays of light and shade, pointing to a decentered motion occurring outside of the frame, while the color palette points to a transient time such as twilight or dawn.