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Personal Reflection
They stand side by side, but they’re not really together. One hides behind a phone, the other behind a gesture. Faces partially hidden, identities softened, almost optional. They could be best friends or total strangers that run at each other and realize they could take a picture together as they’ve accidentally dressed same but opposite, but for me - they seam connected at least by this moment. It feels like a portrait of presence without exposure. A moment captured, but not shared. Or maybe shared too much, just not truthfully. The symmetry is comforting at first, then slightly unsettling. White and black. Visible and hidden. Posting and withholding. You start to wonder: is the “unposted” moment actually the more honest one, or just another layer of performance? And yes, strangely, I also start looking for something else in the frame. A disruption. A witness. A cat that isn’t there. As if the painting trained me to expect something watching from the edges.
About This Artwork
Bagatskaya’s work often plays with controlled composition and emotional ambiguity. The clean lines, simplified backgrounds, and almost theatrical staging echo classical portrait traditions, yet the subjects belong unmistakably to now: smartphones, anonymity, curated identity. There’s a faint echo of Mona Lisa not in appearance, but in that unresolved expression. You can’t quite decode what they feel, and that tension keeps you looking. Her recurring visual language: minimal skies, stillness, and quiet surrealism, creates space for small details to feel significant. Even the absence of her signature cats becomes noticeable. You expect them. Your brain almost inserts them.
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- Nataliya Bagatskaya
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