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The Quiet Return of Painting

Notes from the studio

Why a new generation of painters is walking away from the algorithm and back to the canvas.

In an age of infinite reproduction, the singular object has become quietly radical. Across studios in Lagos, Mexico City, Berlin and Seoul, a generation of painters is treating the canvas as refuge — a place where the eye can rest, and the hand can still surprise itself.

Opuora was built for exactly this moment: to give serious work a serious room.