Rituals of Becoming
Artist Name
Lina Poluna
Artist Statement
My work exists in the space between freedom and confinement, where protection can turn into isolation and silence becomes heavier than words. I paint emotional states rather than stories — tension, vulnerability, control, and what is held beneath the skin until it begins to fracture.
The body becomes a place where these states take form, carrying memory, impact and the possibility of change. My paintings do not seek to comfort. They hold space for what remains unresolved.
Exhibition Statement
Rituals of Becoming explores transformation as a quiet and ongoing process. The works move through vulnerability, instinct, fracture, surrender and renewal, occupying the space between what has been and what is yet to come.
The body becomes both witness and container, carrying what has happened while continuously changing under its weight. Transformation here is not a destination, but a state of becoming — uncertain, intimate and unfinished.
