You Are Who You Think I Am

Sat, Feb 7 · 6:00pm —

Sat, Feb 21 · 9:00pm

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You Are Who You Think I Am Solo Exhibition by Paul Roustan In You Are Who You Think I Am, internationally recognized body-paint artist and photographer Paul Roustan pulls viewers into the complicated, charged conversation surrounding nudity, perception, and intent. Roustan’s work has long lived at the crossroads of beauty, vulnerability, and taboo—where the human form becomes both a battleground and a sanctuary. Through meticulously painted bodies and intimate photographic portraits, Roustan examines how we project meaning onto nakedness, and how those projections reveal far more about us than the subject itself. His images challenge the knee-jerk impulse to sexualize or moralize, instead asking viewers to pause long enough to see the person beneath the paint: unique, powerful, flawed, joyful, insecure, healed, or healing. Roustan’s process is rooted in empathy and years of studying how people inhabit their own skin. His canvases—real people, with real stories—step into new versions of themselves as the paint settles. What emerges is a celebration of individuality, a reclamation of the body as art rather than object, and a mirror held up to the culture that insists on labeling every exposed inch. This exhibition invites you to strip away your assumptions, reconsider your reflexes, and meet the work with the same curiosity and openness Roustan brings to every model. You Are Who You Think I Am is not a provocation—it’s an invitation to look again, more honestly this time. Opening Reception: February 7, 2026, 6–10pm

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