Self Pity Pool by Yuser Explore Mondoir Studio Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Dimensions: 60 x 80 cm Year: 2024 Price: $2200.00 USD Status: available I found myself drifting in the depths of my own emotions. Floating in a warm, swirling pool of orange, the figure reflects a surrender to self-pity, a state we all pass through at times. Why collect this work?A steeply foreshortened pool turns floating into a condition of uncertainty: the clothed figure appears supported by the water yet stranded within the frame. Yuser Fatena describes his practice as examining friction between physical space and emotional weight. Here, that stated concern is realized through the body’s diagonal suspension across an otherwise sparse setting.The figure’s outstretched limbs occupy most of the orange oval, while a ladder rises near the upper edge. Its promise of exit is visible but spatially remote, sharpening the title’s metaphor of emotional withdrawal.The catalogue identifies acrylic on canvas. In the photograph, pale, irregular strokes interrupt the orange field, while dense dark clothing gives the body greater visual weight than the water around it.Painted in 2024, the work makes ordinary pool infrastructure carry narrative pressure. It is particularly useful for considering how contemporary figurative painting can stage passivity without resolving whether the figure rests, suffers, or simply waits. About the ArtistYuser Yuser is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: Painting. Based in Istanbul, Turkey. Nationality: Turkish Istanbul Based Artist
