En roue libre, 1

Siméon Artamonov

2025

Oil on Paper

50 × 40 cm

AAA250178

£400

This is a quiet, intimate painting built around concealment. The painting is about refusal, introspection, distance. A moment caught mid-thought. There's tension between exposure and control: openness while insisting on privacy. A pale hand presses over the face. The gesture feels protective, defensive, or exhausted. The face is withheld. Identity blocked. A sense of a person behind the hand. Access is denied. The skin uses soft, layered tones: bruised pinks, warm creams, faint yellows. Veins and tendons show in the wrist. The hand is more resolved than the body, which fades into the background. The background is a cool, slightly blurred. A psychological space rather than a literal one. It presses in without overwhelming. Hair and shoulders dissolve into loose brushwork. The artwork title marks a period of reflection on technology as trap and painting as freedom.

In collection: En Roue Libre, Selected work

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