SERIES OVERVIEW:

FACADE is Ali Alamdar’s confrontation with mortality, painted out of his own fear of death and long struggle with health anxiety. The series translates this private dread into a staged allegory, using environments drawn from 1950s American interiors and the world-building language of Walt Disney. The colors are deliberately intense, radiant, saturated, seductive, yet they serve as the mask that is slowly eaten away.

The paintings unfold episodically, like a narrative arc. A solitary figure first notices an unusual presence, grows restless, attempts resistance, and ultimately yields to the recognition that death cannot be outrun. The environments mirror this progression: their vibrant hues become unstable, the brushwork deteriorates, order collapses. Mortality arrives not as spectacle, but as a quiet corrosion that alters everything it touches.

Two epilogue canvases extend the arc into imagined afterlife states, one of contentment, the other of regret. Neither is doctrinal; both are psychological projections of the artist’s own anxiety about endings.

At its core, FACADE interrogates the limits of denial. By staging mortality within interiors built on comfort and optimism, Alamdar exposes how even the brightest surfaces are fragile. The series insists that every façade, whether of environment, figure, or psyche, eventually gives way, revealing the inevitability that lies beneath.