In complete freedom and without special introductions, we delve into the psychological portraits of Victor’s brush and cut our way through layers of color in an attempt to understand who and what we see in front of us. The works urge us to question the accuracy of our interpretations since we know nothing about the emotions of the “others”.

A Little Strange—is not a solid-cast collection of characters from cinema or fantasies, but a spectrum of characters and their temperaments reflected in an externally ambiguous and uncomfortable for perception manner. Plots and images of the displayed works, like good art-house cinema, lead viewers to an open ending, leaving the unstated and doubts—and a trace of something red.

The essence wanders in strange poses and blurred appearances and reveals itself through the textured, dynamic color of the artist’s works. Environment and time are secondary: a free, honest conversation with the characters takes center stage. One must endure the gaze and peel away the artificial to respond to the naked emotion encountered.

“We, humans, are eager to behold the essence of others, grasp the character of their personalities, understand their feelings through gestures and facial expressions: it’s our survival instinct. Every facial muscle movement expresses a spectrum of emotions, making the portrait genre special to me,” Victor reflects on his favorite genre. 

The contrasts of dark and bright, sticky and clean, take you out of your comfort zone, provoking you to explore evil and good not as polar phenomena but as parts of one whole, which is present in each protagonist. 

How would you characterize the object opposite to you? Separate it from the red, free it from your internal preconceptions, and you might find out that the scream is actually a smile.