Original artwork description:

Zakhar Shevchuk’s Long Time Ago (2021) is a large oil on canvas (100x120 cm) from his Old Photographs series, where the “flaws” of old snapshots – blur, scratches, faded color – become poetic devices. The project asks how much detail a memory requires, and whether suggestion can be more moving than accuracy.

Here, three figures gather within a shifting ground of greys and smudged ochres. Faces never fully resolve; gestures surface and sink again beneath veils of paint. Scraped marks recall damaged negatives; translucent passages mimic light leaking across paper. The viewer participates in the image by completing it – reconciling presence with absence.

Long Time Ago offers a contemplative balance of narrative hint and painterly abstraction. The artist also accepts commissions in this series and scale.

Materials used:

Oil

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