Fontaine Scarelli Faction For Sale

Faction introduces a note of conflict and division — political, psychological, interpersonal — into this body of work. Executed in oil on paper mounted on canvas, the work has a different surface character from the purely canvas-based paintings: the paper ground imparts a particular quality of light and absorption, the oil sitting differently, drying with a matte depth that distinguishes Faction visually from its companions. The tall, narrow format — 224 × 130 cm — reinforces the painting's sense of pressure and division, the composition organised around a central tension that refuses easy resolution. Faction was completed in 2026 and represents Scarelli's continued interest in paintings that enact their subject matter through formal as well as imagistic means.