Skin Screens is a series created through the study of existing canonical paintings by Aleksandr Deyneka. The colours do not imitate the body’s surface or environment; instead, they manifest an archaic mimetic faculty that uncovers shame, fear, and the dread of punishment latent in a man who encounters a command.

Where today’s dominant military perception represents power, the Skin Screens paintings embody defeat. The colours of the diminished body - covered with bruises and hematomas, the effusion of blood beneath the skin’s surface are driven by the affective link between the body and the flesh of the world.