Almost seen, series A silent mutation of light by Naia Viaznikova
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Medium: acrylic, oil pastel on canvas
Dimensions: 50 x 60 cm
Year: 2026
Price: $850.00 USD
Status: available
A rabbit is barely discernible in the tangle of dried petals and leaves - a creature seemingly emerging from the very fabric of dream. Its form emerges at the border of recognition: the gaze oscillates between the vegetal and the living, between body and shell. The petals resemble both a shelter and the remnants of a bygone bloom. The painting speaks of the fragility of existence and the moment when imagination begins to construct reality. Here, life almost dissolves into nature, and the viewer becomes a witness to a quiet transition - between wakefulness and sleep. Acrylic, oil pastel on canvas, 50*60 cm (19,7”*23,6'') Signed on the front and back by the artist. Stretched and ready to hang. A certificate of Authenticity signed and dated by the artist will be included in the package.
Why collect this work?
A pale, partly concealed animal form is made contingent on surrounding folds: recognition arrives, recedes, and becomes the painting’s central event.
- Viaznikova describes her practice as pursuing transitional states in which animal, plant, and imagined forms remain unresolved. Here, that intention is supported by the rabbit-like shape sharing its contours with petal-like structures.
- In the photograph, dark linear marks gather broad pink, grey, and white passages into curling forms. The central white area can register as a rabbit’s head, yet its interrupted outline also belongs to the surrounding tangle.
- The documented acrylic and oil pastel on canvas permit two distinct kinds of articulation: broad tonal fields establish mass, while drawn lines probe, repeat, and partially undo their boundaries. The image depends on this friction rather than crisp depiction.
- This painting is a focused study of how little visual information is needed before abstraction becomes a named creature. Encountering it alongside botanical or figurative works could sharpen attention to recognition as an active, revisable process.
About the Artist
Naia Viaznikova
Naia Viaznikova is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Novogrudok, BY.
Nationality: Belarusian
In my practice, I create spaces of silence and slowed perception - spaces in which familiar reality temporarily becomes less stable.
