HIDING (2025) is a series of miniature paintings measuring 3 × 4 cm each. Their small scale requires close, intimate viewing; from a distance, the images are almost unreadable and resist immediate recognition.
I started working on this series after meeting Tea Slonina, founder of the miniature art collection Top Shelf, who challenged me to work on an even smaller scale.
In these works, I depict humans and animals in acts of concealment. Figures wear costumes, turn away from the viewer, press themselves into corners, or disappear behind furniture, so that no figure is ever fully revealed.
HIDING reflects on how little is needed to alter understanding, and how perception is continuously formed between presence and absence.
