Tania Stupnikova
Impersonator
Acrylic on canvas
55×55 cm
2023
Košice, Slovakia
Price: 605 EUR
This painting began with a half-asleep thought: what if something from the world behind the screen reached into ours?
That was it. There was no concept, no message, and certainly no explanation. The scene simply grew around that thought.
What I love about this painting is that people keep explaining it to me — and their explanations are never the same. Everyone seems to recognize something different in it. One person even felt sorry for the creature: apparently, it had managed to escape through the laptop only to discover that it still had to work.
I have my own ideas about what is happening here, of course. But by now I think everyone else’s versions are much more interesting.
Perhaps some questions are better left unanswered.