Quietus by Lina Poluna Explore Mondoir Studio Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 25 x 35 cm Year: 2026 Price: $1448.00 USD Status: available Quietus explores the moment when struggle gives way to stillness. The sword, once a symbol of endurance, rests untouched beside the figure, no longer defining her. What remains is neither victory nor defeat, but a fragile state of release—a quiet ending to resistance, where vulnerability becomes its own form of strength. Why collect this work?Quietus turns a sword from an emblem of action into a measure of suspension: laid across the folded drapery, it makes the figure’s bowed stillness appear unresolved rather than simply peaceful. Poluna’s profile describes a practice focused on tension, vulnerability, and restraint. Here, that concern is concentrated in the body’s compressed pose rather than established as a diagnosis or fixed narrative.In the photograph, the pale, curved back emerges from a near-black field while the braid repeats the spine’s descent. The lowered head and loosely held hilt leave ambiguous whether the weapon has been relinquished, retained, or merely paused beside the body.The documented oil-on-canvas medium supports gradual tonal transitions across skin, hair, metal, and dark fabric. These shifts separate the figure from the surrounding darkness while keeping the scene visually subdued.For a collection examining contemporary figurative allegory, this painting provides a concise case in which posture and an inactive object carry meaning without resolving the event into victory or defeat. About the ArtistLina Poluna Lina Poluna is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Tbilisi, GE. Nationality: Russian My work exists in the space between freedom and confinement where protection turns into isolation and silence grows heavier than words.
