Alien Hands

Year

2020

Medium

cardboard/oil

Dimensions

40x30

Series

Lockdown

This work continues the theme of violated personal boundaries, intrusion into private space, and the attempt to protect one’s own integrity. Here, the body is almost absent: a single head and several hands are enough to convey a state of extreme vulnerability. In the painting, the hands do not function as gestures of help, but as images of pressure. They approach the face, touch it, and invade its most sensitive areas — the places where a person is most defenseless. Through this motif, the work speaks about a forceful intrusion into personal space and the fear of losing control over one’s own body. There is no stability or protection in this image. On the contrary, everything is built around a sense of fragility, anxiety, and the impossibility of distancing oneself from someone else’s influence. This is why the work appears to be one of the most dramatic in the series: the horror does not come from an external event, but from the very sensation of intrusion.