Under the glass hood, series The limits of subjective reality by Naia Viaznikova
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Medium: acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 40 x 30 cm
Year: 2024
Price: $450.00 USD
Status: available
The perfect glass surface is both protection and barrier. It not only shields the inner world from outer chaos, but also distorts it by breaking up forms, making them faceless and safe. It is a study of voluntary or forced seclusion, where the security of the dome is inevitably accompanied by a sense of detached observation of life that flows somewhere out there, beyond comprehension. Acrylic on canvas, 30*40 cm (11,8''*15,7'') 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 rigid, transparent boundary organizes the painting: the rabbit appears protected from a turbulent landscape, yet its central placement turns shelter into display and confinement.
- Viaznikova states that her practice explores slowed perception and boundaries between real and imagined forms. Here, that concern is focused through an enclosure that can be read as refuge, barrier, or viewing apparatus.
- In the supplied photograph, the dome’s pale outline nearly fills the composition, while dark ridges and suspended cloud-like forms continue behind it. The rabbit faces outward from red forms, making its alert gaze the scene’s stillest element.
- The documented acrylic-on-canvas medium makes strong shifts between opaque dark areas and fine pale marks possible. Here, these contrasts distinguish fur, glass, and landscape even as their contours visually overlap.
- For a collection examining enclosure or human projections onto animals, this painting sharpens a consequential distinction: safety is pictured not as freedom from danger, but as visibility without participation.
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.
