Alien Hands 2.0

Year

2021

Medium

oil/paper

Dimensions

40x30

Series

Therapy Project

In “Alien Hands 2.0,” the theme of intrusion is conveyed in a more generalized and expressive way. The face almost disappears within large fields of color: the dark blue and yellow forms do not so much depict specific hands as create the sensation of an external pressure hanging over the body. What matters here is not the literal action, but the physical feeling of compression. The space around the heroine seems to close in: one form presses from above, another covers the face, and a third pulls the figure into darkness. The person is not placed at the center of a stable composition, but inside a tense collision of painterly marks, where the boundary between the body and external force is almost erased. The warm reddish-brown background intensifies the anxiety: it offers neither air nor calm, turning the scene into a closed inner space. In this version, horror does not arise through a direct gesture, but through painterly pressure — through color, the weight of the brushstroke, and the feeling that an alien presence has already come too close. And yet the image does not appear completely destroyed. The face remains visible, although partially hidden, as if it continues to hold itself together within the chaos. The tension of the work is built precisely on this: the heroine is almost absorbed by an external force, but still preserves her inner presence.