Digital Arts titled "Science of Sleep, m…" by Nikolina Petolas, Original Artwork

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Science of Sleep, medium, limited edition of 5 (2015) Digital Arts by Nikolina Petolas

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Certificate of Authenticity included

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Dimensions Height 24in, Width 35.4in
Categories Digital Arts under $5,000 Conceptual Art

'Science of Sleep' (medium size).
90cm x 61cm, from edition of 5 plus 2AP.

Giclée on Hahnemühle, the most premium quality paper, printed with 2cm white border. Comes with signed & numbered certificate of authenticity.

"Set in a strange, museum-like room, it features a faded animal skeleton, entirely at odds with the luminous female figure across the room. The woman faces a backlit door, symbolizing all sorts of escape and a yearning for freedom from the surreal diorama she shares with the bones. However, there is no fear nor animosity in the scene- just desire, coming from both the dead and the living. And just like that, Nikolina blends the two, saving the story but inviting us to distinguish the emotional signals in the piece rather than its statement."...from Highlark Magazine

"....All those bones and skeletons...they were a part of beings that were once alive and had some purpose.
They remind me of something that once had its place in our lives, some kind of an emotion, friendship, relationship...that eventually died and became some distant memory. It exists here somewhere, runs and appears around like those skeletons, but still it is just a ghost from the past."

Limited Edition artworks are available as fine art, museum-quality, archival pigment prints, professionally printed on heavyweight, acid free, archival paper with white border.
During the proofing process Nikolina works closely with her printer to produce colours and finishes for every artwork, with attention to crisp details of the print. Each print is carefully inspected before final dispatching.

Also available as small edition of 7, and large edition of 3.
Only 15 pieces total, in all sizes.

Related themes

Naked Woman Girl Skeleton Dark

Nikolina Petolas

Croatia

Nikolina feels a profound fascination with human behavior: with her works she searches to underline the psychological and social aspects of our identity and effects that endless soul searching has on our lives.

In her metaphorical presentations, from multiple personalities, dreamlike landscapes to strange and dark creatures and environments, she uses the observation of inner conflicts and questions that arise from them, as a dreamy and vivid example to show complex human emotions and drives as well as her subjective personal experience of the world.

She expresses her eerie visions through screenshots of an imagined story, by guiding the viewer on a journey through imaginative visual interpretations of her fictional worlds.

Her motives are sometimes dark and gloomy and often present dreamlike ambients and strange creatures. She personifies them with her state of consciousness, inner conflicts and excessive dreamy nature.

"Nikolina has found a way to show daydreaming in a new and refreshing way.
Her images are different and full of intrigue.
Items from everyday life become storytellers who guide us to the fairy tale land of dreams and imagination.

Nevertheless there are also questions raised about existence and reality which guide us to the new and sometimes darker spheres. Ultimately, they give us fresh view to the world around us.”