PAVEL KRASHENININ
CONSEQUENCES OF THE WAR
canvas, original technique, 60х60cm
2023
Red in this work does not speak as the color of life — it becomes the color of overheated memory, blood, and an inner burn that can no longer be separated from the surface itself. Black masses pull the space into heavy voids, white flashes like rupture, blinding light, the trace of something destroyed too abruptly, while the cold turquoise accents do not soothe the composition but make it more painful through their almost inappropriate clarity. The eye moves across a field where nothing remains whole: form breaks into clusters, drips, wounds, and foaming edges, and the painted matter itself begins to resemble substance after impact.
War exists here for me not as an event and not as an illustration of violence, but as a prolonged condition after the explosion, when destruction continues to live inside the body, memory, and space. Consequences always run deeper than visible damage: they enter the rhythm of perception, the sense of safety, the very ability to hold wholeness together. That is why the work is built not on narrative, but on the experience of residual pressure, where chaos has already happened and is still continuing. Its central tension lies in that inability to heal quickly.