Contravene was a solo exhibition by Papayon presented in Houston, Texas, opening on June 8, 2024.

Bringing together a selection of paintings and mixed-media works, the exhibition explored recurring themes within the artist's practice, including resilience, contradiction, social tension, and the negotiation between order and disruption.

The works combined symbolic imagery, expressive mark-making, and layered surfaces to examine the ways individuals navigate conflict, identity, and transformation.

Presented during a formative period in the artist's exhibition history in Houston, Contravene established many of the conceptual concerns that would continue to develop throughout subsequent exhibitions and larger bodies of work.