X-Ray: Beneath the Skin | 2026

Joseph Jones

Focusing on the love as it exists between couples, the artworks explore themes of intimacy beyond surface identity - the contemporary artist strips away skin, ego, social performance, revealing closeness not as idealised romance, but as shared fragility and emotional exposure.

Presented as circular artworks, a deliberate choice that reinforces themes of continuity and embodies the cycle of love and life, and produced as anaglyphs, to highlight the contrast between warmth and cold, life and mortality, desire and distance; the collection forces us to navigate multiple visual realities at once, mirroring the complexity of intimate relationships - where love and mortality occupy the same space, and intimacy is not diminished by vulnerability, but defined by it.