Original artwork description:

I think that any manifestation of a person in society, the formation of personality, growing up, always leaves some dark sides within us. They are not familiar even to ourselves. And they certainly always have the highest potential.

In my work I focus on the performative symbolic structure of painting. I draw on the experience of Michel Foucault, on his analysis of the relationship between painting as an object and painting as an illusory volume, renewed by the impressionists. I am looking for ways to articulate the ambivalence of the very nature of the image – enclosed in a frame and simultaneously revealed into virtual layers of consciousness. I strive to mark the midpoint of oscillation, which is localized precisely in optics, in perception.
I do not paint portraits, I do not try to formulate a question or an answer, but I create a reason to doubt the usual interpretation, the Lacanian Real. In this I focus on Magritte’s iteration of surrealism, with its visionary entry into the logic of conceptual art and even further into the process of oscillation. I discard traditional aesthetic gradations, creating a painting-object with which the viewer independently comes into visual contact.

The artwork was made using the author's technique of multi-layer oil painting on premium quality linen canvas. The artwork is stretched on a stretcher, the ends are 4 cm wide and are a continuation of the painting. Completely ready to hang and can be used without a frame if desired.

Materials used:

oil

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