Arinze Stanley's Machine Man is a work of extraordinary technical and conceptual achievement. Stanley works in pastel and colour pencil on paper, a combination that he has developed over years of intensive studio practice into a technique capable of producing surfaces of near-photographic density and emotional depth. At 53.9 x 55.1 inches, Machine Man presents a male figure whose skin appears coated in a viscous, metallic substance, situating the human body at the boundary between the organic and the industrial. This inquiry into the African body in relation to technology, labour, and post-colonial modernity places Stanley in conversation with a broader tradition of figurative painting concerned with the politics of Black embodiment, from the Social Realists of the mid-twentieth century to the contemporary generation of artists engaging with Afrofuturism. Stanley is represented by Galerie Templon in Paris, and his work has entered significant collections in Europe and the United States. He was born in Onitsha, Nigeria in 1993 and received formal training in fine arts before developing his distinctive pastel technique through independent studio practice. Machine Man was created in 2024 and acquired in November of the same year.