Future Under Threat by Alina Khozhan
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Medium: Acrylic, oil on canvas
Dimensions: 80 x 120 cm
Year: 2025
Price: $6500.00 USD
Status: available
In the center of 'Future Under Threat', in the form of a young girl, a beautiful, untouched landscape unfolds — a vision of the living nature that exists within every human being. This central image invites us to remember that each of us is inseparably part of nature itself, and with it comes the duty to preserve our world for future generations. Yet surrounding this fragile image are scenes of destruction. A devastated city after war, skies echoing the apocalyptic tones of The Last Day of Pompeii, figures in yellow suits working with radioactive waste, and the ever-present piles of garbage born from modern consumption — all reflect the countless ways in which humanity endangers its own future. In these fragments, even the threat of nuclear war is evoked, with the chilling suggestion that if it were to occur, only the most resilient creatures, like cockroaches, might survive. Amid this tension between hope and devastation, a yurt appears — a symbol of Kazakh heritage, simplicity, and harmony with the land. It represents the past, when life was lived closer to nature, but also serves as a warning: if we abandon preservation, the past may be all that remains, while the future becomes unlivable. 'Future Under Threat' is both a reflection and an appeal. It shows us that our choices determine whether the untouched beauty within us will flourish or vanish. To protect nature is to protect ourselves, our culture, and the generations yet to come.
Why collect this work?
Future Under Threat compresses pastoral land, industrial ruin, fire, protective suits, waste and insects into interlocking zones, making environmental crisis appear not as one event but as several pressures occurring at once.
- Khozhan’s statement identifies social issues and relationships between humans and other living beings as recurring concerns. Here, that focus expands from individual subjects to a threatened ecological system.
- Hard-edged passages interrupt one another: cool mountains and grazing animals occupy the centre, while red fire, blackened structures and a yellow stream of insects press inward. The pastoral scene reads as enclosed rather than secure.
- The documented acrylic and oil medium permits sharply separated colour fields alongside more graduated modelling. In the photograph, this contrast helps the montage hold together while preserving abrupt shifts in scale and setting.
- The artist describes the central form as a young girl and the white dwelling as a Kazakh yurt. Encountering the painting brings environmental warning into contact with cultural continuity, asking what forms of inheritance can survive damaged land.
About the Artist
Alina Khozhan
Alina Khozhan is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Astana, Kazakhstan.
Nationality: Kazakh
I explores social issues and the emotional depth of human experience through my artworks.
