Double Standard 17 and 14 Diptych places two distinct interpretations of the female figure in direct visual dialogue. One portrait appears frontal and deliberately anonymous, while the second adopts a classical profile framed by an elaborate ornamental headdress. Their contrasting viewpoints create a tension between identity, historical reference, and constructed beauty. The restrained palette of beige, gray, and blue-gray tones gives the work an archaeological quality, while visible marks and painterly textures preserve the intimacy of drawing. This Figurative Drawing invites close looking, revealing how familiar cultural symbols can shift meaning when presented through contemporary eyes.
 
The more transcendental the representation, the more it tends to evoke it through its prodigies. Such is the case of the Double standard series in the words of the artist "It is a process of visual archeology through a search for human representations conditioned by their ritual, aesthetic or utilitarian meaning where a resignification of beauty patterns is proposed, a game with female representation with its multiple meanings, functions and forms”
James Bonachea combines the same motif separated by different forms of representation. The double standard announces a double reading of the original meaning of an image, a polysemic game of signifiers. Doble standard's proposal is an artisan of artisans: it summarizes the wisdom of concretism in time through the human figure and the object as a poetic expression of the time in which Bonachea's works take place.
 
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