Katia Lifshin: Shapeshifters

Katia Lifshin’s work displays shape-shifting, twisting, and bending subjects and scenery. The surrealist nature of these paintings seems like the output of a young woman’s subconscious, where the limits of the body disappear, and the boundaries between the self and its surroundings blur. Inspired by monochromatic photographs, the artist opts for a blue and green color palette which provides her phantasmagoric oeuvre with a nocturnal feel, perhaps even alluding to the insecurities and anxieties that are an inevitable part of self-reflection. Lifshin’s female subjects seldom reveal their faces. This enigmatic quality indicates how personal, subjective subconscious moments can so intuitively meet the universal.

Photos: Elad Sarig.