Oil on canvas 40X80X1.8
This image might be considered one of the “strongest” paintings created by Aneta Chabibulina. The message is also striking. Hung dimension between Tanathos and Eros. In the upper part of the painting is a clear light, life, sex organ, well visible and ready to procreate and give birth, almost exposed as a flower, ready for its vital photosynthesis. Some light is passing the ground and reaches the face of the subject, is it a sign of hope? There is for sure life also in the lower part of the painting but is less recognizable, it is more “protected” and isolated, is darker and frozen probably waiting for the warm season. The gloomy, scary, almost hibernated hair, digging deep in the ground as roots of a tree, desperately searching for some nutrition from the center of the earth, rich of warmth. A contrast between two seasons and two dimension in one image. Is this symbolizing a hung dimension? Fight between life and death? What lives underground is buried or is alive like in the upper part? Several interpretations can be given and the message of the artist is not univocal or oriented in just one direction.
Aneta Chabibulina is rooted in the wild and pure Baltic land but she is a cosmopolitan, a citizen of this earth. The influence of Baltic places, at the same time terrestrial and fabulous, gloomy and relaxing, cold and mild, is clearly present in her art.
Born in 1983, under a certain Soviet influence, thus not dried... More
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