Maria Meltsaeva

In my paintings, the main focus is on the hands. As opposed to social networks and endless retouched selfies with fake emotions, I do not use faces, but hands as the main tool for conveying the ideas, emotions and states of a person. Hands are much less likely to get into social media, they are rarely retouched and are not used to convey staged emotions and states, therefore it is on them that the focus is shifted in my works, the plasticity of hands is used to convey the truth, faces fade into the background, and sometimes are completely hidden.