Rite by Lina Poluna
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Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 40 x 40 cm
Year: 2026
Price: $1630.00 USD
Status: available
A shared ritual passed from woman to woman — unspoken, inherited, and deeply remembered. It lives not in words but in the body: in gesture, movement, presence, and silent understanding. This bond resists language because it belongs to something older than speech, carried across generations through instinct, memory, and care. It is a quiet form of knowledge that endures through time, connecting those who came before with those who are still becoming.
Why collect this work?
A ring of women forms around a small fire, but the dark intervals between their bodies prevent complete visual unity. Repeated gestures make ritual appear coordinated yet inaccessible.
- Poluna describes the body as carrying memory and transformation. Here, echoed poses support that concern, while the idea of knowledge inherited between women remains an artist-reported intention rather than a visible fact.
- Foreground figures turn away or extend beyond the frame, while smaller figures gather behind the flames. This compression places the viewer close to the circle without providing a clear point of entry.
- Catalogued as oil on canvas, the painting sets pale bodies and warm firelight against a nearly continuous dark field. Oil can support the gradual tonal shifts that give the figures volume without firm outlines.
- The documented 40-centimetre square condenses a crowded scene into an intimate format. Encountering it alongside other representations of collective ceremony could sharpen questions about who participates, who observes, and how belonging is pictured.
About the Artist
Lina 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.
