2020 | Oil on canvas | 90x120 cm
SELF-ISOLATION
«We stopped coming closer to each other not because of indifference, but out of fear of losing our lives.»
2020 | Oil on canvas | 90x120 cm
SELF-ISOLATION
«We stopped coming closer to each other not because of indifference, but out of fear of losing our lives.»
The painting «Self-Isolation» is a self-portrait by the artist, created during the period of global isolation in 2020. The central figure stands at an invisible boundary: palms pressed against a metaphorical glass, gaze directed forward — not at the viewer, but through them. The mask becomes not only a symbol of protection but also a sign of the loss of physical closeness, of habitual human presence.
The space around fragments into a multitude of windows — in each one, the silhouettes of other people. They are equally motionless, equally separated from one another. The windows glow but do not connect: each person is in their own compartment, in their own safe cell. In this multitude of figures there is no dialogue — only parallel existence.
The painting speaks of the paradox of the time: we are many, yet we are alone. Physical closeness has become a threat, touch — a risk, and home — the only permissible world. While the external world came to a halt, the internal one continued to live — and it was precisely in this enclosed space that art was born as a way of preserving connection with reality and with oneself.
«Self-Isolation» is not only a chronicle of the pandemic but also a visual reflection on the fragility of human contact, on distance as a new form of loneliness, and on the silence in which each person found themselves face to face with themselves.
The space around fragments into a multitude of windows — in each one, the silhouettes of other people. They are equally motionless, equally separated from one another. The windows glow but do not connect: each person is in their own compartment, in their own safe cell. In this multitude of figures there is no dialogue — only parallel existence.
The painting speaks of the paradox of the time: we are many, yet we are alone. Physical closeness has become a threat, touch — a risk, and home — the only permissible world. While the external world came to a halt, the internal one continued to live — and it was precisely in this enclosed space that art was born as a way of preserving connection with reality and with oneself.
«Self-Isolation» is not only a chronicle of the pandemic but also a visual reflection on the fragility of human contact, on distance as a new form of loneliness, and on the silence in which each person found themselves face to face with themselves.
The painting «Self-Isolation» is a self-portrait by the artist, created during the period of global isolation in 2020. The central figure stands at an invisible boundary: palms pressed against a metaphorical glass, gaze directed forward — not at the viewer, but through them. The mask becomes not only a symbol of protection but also a sign of the loss of physical closeness, of habitual human presence.
The space around fragments into a multitude of windows — in each one, the silhouettes of other people. They are equally motionless, equally separated from one another. The windows glow but do not connect: each person is in their own compartment, in their own safe cell. In this multitude of figures there is no dialogue — only parallel existence.
The painting speaks of the paradox of the time: we are many, yet we are alone. Physical closeness has become a threat, touch — a risk, and home — the only permissible world. While the external world came to a halt, the internal one continued to live — and it was precisely in this enclosed space that art was born as a way of preserving connection with reality and with oneself.
«Self-Isolation» is not only a chronicle of the pandemic but also a visual reflection on the fragility of human contact, on distance as a new form of loneliness, and on the silence in which each person found themselves face to face with themselves.
The space around fragments into a multitude of windows — in each one, the silhouettes of other people. They are equally motionless, equally separated from one another. The windows glow but do not connect: each person is in their own compartment, in their own safe cell. In this multitude of figures there is no dialogue — only parallel existence.
The painting speaks of the paradox of the time: we are many, yet we are alone. Physical closeness has become a threat, touch — a risk, and home — the only permissible world. While the external world came to a halt, the internal one continued to live — and it was precisely in this enclosed space that art was born as a way of preserving connection with reality and with oneself.
«Self-Isolation» is not only a chronicle of the pandemic but also a visual reflection on the fragility of human contact, on distance as a new form of loneliness, and on the silence in which each person found themselves face to face with themselves.
