145 x 75 cm
2026
Textiles, glass beads, оil pastel
6.500 $
To order, write to email: alexslon.art@gmail.com
Each original comes with a certificate of authenticity from the artist.
The frame on the painting is for reference only and is not included, only the canvas with embroidery is included.
The measurements are the size of the frame that will fit. (I highly recommend measuring again before purchasing the stretcher bar due to variations in depth and personal preference).
The "Come and See" series explores the gaze as a space of memory, inner experience, and testimony. I'm interested in the moment when a face ceases to be a portrait of a specific individual and becomes the image of a universal emotional state.
Each work focuses exclusively on the gaze. Deprived of narrative context, it ceases to belong to a single person and becomes a testimony to an experience, something that cannot be expressed in words.
I'm interested not in depicting trauma as an event, but in its trace in human perception. Therefore, the series avoids direct representation of violence, turning instead to its emotional imprint: fear, anxiety, numbness, loss, hope, compassion, inner emptiness.
The gaze here doesn't tell a story—it preserves its aftermath. Individual experience becomes collectively recognizable, transforming into an experience in which the viewer inevitably encounters themselves.
The title “Come and See” inevitably enters into a cultural dialogue with Elem Klimov’s 1985 film of the same name. However, my work does not illustrate the film or directly address the events depicted in it. The connection occurs on another level, through the very idea of looking as a form of witnessing. With Klimov, the viewer finds himself inside the experience of what he saw; with me, the gaze becomes the place where the experience is preserved after the event itself has disappeared.
