Anne von Westphalen’s works explore the fragile architecture of identity through the absence of the face. Whether in acrylic paintings or linocut portraits, her figures appear withdrawn, veiled, or symbolically altered—caught between exposure and concealment. The facelessness becomes a mirror, reflecting collective gestures of self-representation in an era of over-visibility. In the linocuts, simplified, almost classical silhouettes meet contemporary symbols—a question mark, tinted glasses—turning anonymity into irony. In the larger painted interiors, the same tension expands into spatial metaphors: rooms as psychological chambers, ribbons as lines of thought or entanglement. The works invite viewers to project themselves into these “thinking spaces,” where identity is not fixed but constantly negotiated between image and imagination. Through reduction and layering, von Westphalen questions how much of the self must be revealed—or hidden—to remain visible.