‘Selfless Portraits’ is Malaysian artist Charles CHAM’s fourth solo exhibition at Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong. In this exhibition, Charles focuses on one of the oldest themes used by artists in modern painting – self-portraits. But in this series of works, colourful and grey, big and tiny, the artist does not concentrate on his own likeliness on canvas, but rather on who he is inside and subjects that matter to him. He painted his thoughts, beliefs and opinions in graffiti-like calligraphy and symbols. Faces are reduced to simple lines and forms. The ‘self-portraits’ appear in the form of a silhouette, a shadow, an outline, or just a patch of colour, representing the artist himself. It’s like self-portraiture without the self. Paintings are done in his trademark style of Yin and Yang – the duality of life and the attraction of opposites. Every painting, like everything in life, he believes, has another side to it whether visible or not.