LENA KRASHEVKA | Expressing The Figure’s Profound Emotional State

Lena Krashevka
Expressing The Figure’s Profound Emotional State

During the day, I always reflect.
The term reflection is more than familiar to us in general usage. Despite its varied contextual application, it is mostly associated with reflection. But is there more behind a reflection than a mere reproduction of people and their surroundings?
A wide variety of experiences are hidden in our inner world. It is not uncommon for them to remain just a series of “cinema images” in our heads. I wish to see these “pictures” with other like-minded people, experience similar feelings, and feel complete unity. But in reality, we remain lonely.

“A wide variety of experiences are hidden in our inner world. Not infrequently, they remain only a series of “cinematic images” in our minds. So much I wish to watch these “pictures” with other like-minded people, to experience similar feelings, and to feel complete unity. But we remain lonely in reality.”

We often experience contradictory emotions: pain and joy, suffering and love, sometimes all at once. Naturally, we have certain expectations in this regard in our consciousness. But things are usually different; we are forced to confront unexpected obstacles, such as loss, betrayal, and, finally, a pandemic. It happens so suddenly and unexpectedly, just like these spots on my portraits.

Most of the time, we are unprepared for it; we don’t know how to deal with it. So then the question of assessment arises because the feelings result from the viewer, his/her review.
We may be inwardly ready to resist reality, to blame everyone and everything, or else we find strength in being able to see the best and most beautiful in it, to take pleasure in transcending complexity and this imperfection in our lives To accept your surroundings to feel your own connection to the world. When painting, I combine classical school with modern techniques.
I’m always looking for those forms and facets that enable me to harmonize visual images and emotional impressions. I need to express myself through or on the screen.

Lena Krashevka

Lena Krashevka was born in Minsk, Belarus, in 1988. Since 2015 she has lived and worked in Cologne, Germany.
She graduated from the College of Architecture in 2008 and received the specialty Artist-Designer. In 2014, she graduated from the Belarusian State Academy of Arts with a degree in Graphic Design.
She sees herself as a person with strong feelings and extreme emotion, which is the base of her expressive solid work. The core of Krashevka’s works is to capture and reflect the more profound psycho-emotional state of the figure state to the canvas. The Artist seeks to achieve explicit psychological images and a convincing saturation of the light-air atmosphere, color harmony, and overall emotionality.

Krashevka has exhibited her work in many solo and group exhibitions worldwide and gained enormous success in art fairs, including at the latest Discovery Art Fair, Cologne, last April 2023.
Among the many latest solo exhibitions, you will find the Minrath Gallery, Cologne, Germany, in 2022; the series “Reflections” was exhibited at the PontArte Gallery, Maastricht, in 2022, and the series “Consonance – In Unison” was shown in Gallery Seidel, Cologne, Germany, in 2023, among many others.

Series: The Portraits

“In the blurred lines, we see a face. We can only surmise what lies behind it, endowing the image with invented features. The bright stain destroys the illusion; it calls the viewers to look at the world with clear eyes through distraction.”

“This series of paintings is a meaningful and effective combination of imaging techniques and a metaphorical message by expressing the figure’s emotional state. The Artist reveals the problem of the “subject”: looking inside herself, understanding who she is, and discovering the more profound place in herself. Illusion The character’s portrait is made at the intersection of classical and modern art. In the blurred lines, we see a face.
We can only surmise what lies behind it, endowing the image with invented features. The bright stain destroys the illusion; it calls the viewers to look at the world with clear eyes through distraction.”

Read the full article in Art Market Magazine Issue #81