Nausea 2.0

Year

2021

Medium

oil/paper

Dimensions

40x30

Series

Therapy Project

Nausea 2.0 is a more expressive version of the image, where the face appears compressed within an anxious environment of hands, brushstrokes, and oppressive forms. Here, the literal meaning of what is happening becomes less important than the sensation itself: intrusion, inner noise, and the impossibility of carving out any space for oneself. The hands surrounding the face are perceived not as separate characters, but as multiple forms of pressure: they touch, disturb, and suppress, leaving the heroine no distance and no peace. Through this, the painting conveys a state of extreme vulnerability, in which personal boundaries have been completely violated. The cold grey-blue palette intensifies the feeling of alienation and emotional numbness. There is almost no warmth in the work — only fatigue, heaviness, and a calm, almost silent endurance of anxiety. This is not a sudden flash of horror, but a condition that has lasted for so long that it has become part of the inner reality. And yet the image does not appear broken. Despite the pressure, the face retains composure and inner resilience. This is where the main tension of the work emerges: what we see is not a scream, but a silent existence within pain — a pain that does not disappear, but becomes habitual.