"SELF PORTRAIT" 2020
canvas/oil/cloth, 205 × 90 см
The work is reasoning of self-positioning in outside. Whatever it is an action, spoken word, written book or, as in this case, self portrait. Attention focuses on «private» and «public» and their interrelation. Interact with the artwork as with «the Other», we can only read up on outside, «public» casing, but interior content remains be hidden. Here comes into force an ability to fill in, imagine what can be interior side of an object. But that filled in image is not the true, it is true only for outside world, but not for interior one. When a human releases anything from the one's interior world to outside - the one releases as much as the one considers acceptable to release, even for a personal dairy, self-study and self-reflection. Therefore, a human's true personality, what the one keeps inside, forever remains in there.
Interior side of the artwork does not depend on interaction with outside world. It is autonomous. Physical being of the interiority is proof of a fact it's being, without evaluative sight of others. An act of artistic interaction between two layers of the work stay unchangeable regardless of environment.
Text: Vasily Kuznetsov