"Double portrait" (2021)Drawing by Marya

This work was done with a ballpoint pen on office paper A4 , which is glued with tape. I deliberately use the simplest and most non-artistic materials. I want to emphasize the lightness, simplicity, accessibility and illusion of contemporary art.
The diptych is perceived as portraits without faces—instead of features, there are only insides, a tangle of intestinal forms, as if personality has been reduced to biology. Differences in details (cat ears, hairstyle) hint at gender or roles, but identity remains internal, not external. There is a sense of vulnerability and exposure: the person is represented as a system, as an organic structure without a mask. The grid makes these “portraits” resemble a medical diagram or scientific atlas, where emotion is replaced by anatomy. The work sounds like a reflection on the nature of personality — where the image ends and the organism begins.
This work consists of individual sheets of A4 paper, which are glued together with adhesive tape. Along the gluing line, the picture can be bent and folded like an accordion, like a brochure. I am using this opportunity to mail this picture. When you receive this picture, it will be folded like a brochure A4. The picture must be expanded and placed in a graphic frame. This can be easily done by yourself or in any baguette studio.

Materials used:

ballpoint pen

Details:

• Drawing on Paper
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 257 x 210 x 0.1cm (unframed)
• Signed on the back
• Style: Surrealistic
• Subject: People and portraits

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