Polina Bortina
RU/EN

About the work

A minimalist work built on an almost monochrome light surface, where texture becomes the main expressive means. The pastel, cool field recalls dried earth or a wall bleached by time — a space of silence in which faint traces of movement are hidden beneath a layer of calm.

The central fracture, assembled from small mosaic fragments, cuts through the composition like a line of inner tension that has surfaced. It does not destroy the whole; on the contrary, it forms a new structure — thin, vulnerable, yet stable.

The work explores a state of fragile balance, where the crack becomes not a sign of destruction but a moment of transition.

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