Painting by Alena Kuznetsova

‘33’, 65*90 cm, canvas, oil, beads, applique. 2019-2022 This is not exactly a "series", but a cycle of 11 works of various formats, I think prophetic. I started it at the end of 2019 because I felt pain as if I had died, and a personal crisis that I could not explain logically. The worst thing for me is the crisis of meaning. This cycle is an attempt to look into the eyes of my truth - the images, from which I have largely weaned myself, studying color and abstract art for the past 10 years. I consider this series a return to real life, containing complex relationships, such as Eros and Thanatos, unspeakable, subconscious. Visualizing your demons is like bringing them to the surface to let them disappear. To think of the beauty and fear, of your role: artist, woman, about the rules that limit your mind in this world.