LOOK INSIDE ME
SERIES
HOLD IT!
Oil on canvas
100 x 70
2022
ABOUT
Vultus est index animi. It's said that the eyes are the mirror of the soul. But it is only partly true. It would be more correct to say, especially in the era of representationism crisis and dual oppositions, that the whole body of a person is the embodiment of his inner world, because the body and soul are the same things. Internal and external are one whole.
Lana Stalnaya, a modern artist working in the conceptual figurative genre, in her series with the distinctive title "Look inside me" conducts a study of the visuality, physicality and body memory. She offers her own point of view on the actual philosophical problem through painting. In this cycle, the artist keeps her own nature and unique style - subtle, intelligent, restrained and refined, refusing complicated allegories and using simple language of universal symbols.
As well as the other works of the artist, paintings from this series are performative and full of action even more than ever. “Hold”, “Look inside me”, “Let's run”, “We gonna fly tomorrow”!
They induce to look, they require exploring, intensifying the very act of seeing and changing sight trajectory, so: "look at" becomes "look into". Embodying her ontology of the inexpressible, Stalnaya refers to the human body manifestations and captures the body in variety of its states and poses: in static and dynamic, standing, sitting and lying down, while playing, running and sleeping. The artist, without secret, admires the female body perfection which undoubtedly correlate with everything that transcends body limits.
The "catalog" of spontaneous gestures reveals the fluidity and permeability of reality: bodies dissolve in the surrounding objects, volumetric forms gradually transform into lines on the plane surface and imperceptibly disappear. Adjacency to material objects (paper airplanes and balls of different sizes) does not reveal their strictly material nature, but, on the contrary, reminds surrealistic paintings, which leave a full scope for imagination. Thus, the equivalence of the human and non-human is affirmed.
DREAMER
Oil on canvas
70 x 70
2022
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HER OWN GAME
Oil on canvas
170 x 60
2022
RUN!
Oil on canvas
120 x 100
2022
GAME OVER
Oil on canvas
120 х 100
2022
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Oil on canvas
120 х 100
2022
GAME OVER
Oil on canvas
120 х 100
2022
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LOOK INSIDE ME
Oil on canvas
120 x 80
2022
COMPROMISE
Oil on canvas
50 x 40
2022
WE'LL FLY TOMORROW
Oil on canvas
60 x 120
2022
THE THIRD PHASE OF SLEEP
Oil on canvas
100 x 70
2022
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LOOK INTO ME (DIPTYCH)
Oil on canvas
45 x 60
2022
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REBEL
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Oil on canvas
45 x 60
2022
LET'S FLY!
SERIES
LET'S FLY
Oil on canvas
120 x 100
2022
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STAY WITH ME
Oil on canvas
120 x 80
2022
NEW PERSON
Oil on canvas
100 x 100
2022
CATCH ME!
Oil on canvas
140 x 90
2022