Irina Barko
2024
Oil and acrylic on canvas
40 x 40 cm 
This work is the result of a reflection on the fragmentation of contemporary consciousness, where the human being exists simultaneously across different roles, states, and information flows. The faces are hidden because identity is no longer reduced to a single image; it is constructed from cultural symbols, gestures, and objects of everyday life. The newspaper, books, the telephone, and toy-like shapes become signs of memory, knowledge, communication, and play—all intertwined into a single visual noise.
Bright, naive elements contrast with realistic fragments of the body, highlighting the rift between inner experience and the external world. The composition seeks to convey a sense of information pressure and the constant presence of external meanings. In this work, chaos is presented as the natural environment of the contemporary human being. The piece explores the attempt to preserve inner integrity while inhabiting a multilayered and pulsating reality.