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01 — Scrambled

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Medhansh Seth

Contemporary portraits, built from Rubik’s Cubes.

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02 — The studio

One subject.Hundreds of cubes.Thousands of decisions.

The Rubik's Cube was designed to be solved. Here it is used to construct something instead — a fixed palette of six colours, arranged until a face appears in them. The work begins long before the first cube is placed.

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Act three — scale

03 — Scale

1 — One cube, Six faces, fifty-four squares

One cube

Six faces, fifty-four squares

Only one of those faces will ever be seen.

Work 01Final portrait

Dhirubhai Ambani

  • 2026
  • 224 Rubik's Cubes
  • 14 × 16 grid
  • 80 × 91 cm
  • Rubik's Cubes on panel

Cube

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Work 02Final portrait

Mukesh Ambani

  • 2026
  • 224 Rubik's Cubes
  • 14 × 16 grid
  • 80 × 91 cm
  • Rubik's Cubes on panel

Cube

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Work 03Final portrait

Ritu Suri

  • Undated
  • 255 Rubik's Cubes
  • 15 × 17 grid
  • 86 × 97 cm
  • Rubik's Cubes on panel

Cube

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Selected works

A portraitcannot bemass-produced.

Each mosaic is undertaken deliberately, one at a time. The archive is small on purpose.

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05 — Distance

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Viewing distance 5 cm

Nothing about the work changes. Only where you stand.

06 — Build the portrait

Cubes placed 001 / 224

One cube is noise.

14 × 16 — placed in reading order

07 — Where to next
01Explore the workThe full archive, close up and far back.02Enter the studioReference, grid, palette, assembly.03Apply for a commissionA limited number are considered each year.