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Sanya Kantarovsky
Worm, 2025Oil on canvasSigned and dated verso140 x 99.3 cm
55.1 x 39.1 inchesB-SKANTAROVSKY-.25-0001Sanya Kantarovsky works with unsettling, darkly humorous imagery. His paintings merge psychological intensity, character-driven scenes, and surfaces that sometimes conceal as much as they reveal. He uses washes, layers, mixed...Sanya Kantarovsky works with unsettling, darkly humorous imagery.
His paintings merge psychological intensity, character-driven scenes, and surfaces that sometimes conceal as much as they reveal. He uses washes, layers, mixed scales, sometimes grotesque or distorted figures, often in moments of existential or emotional tension.
Worm suggests a more focused metaphor, perhaps one of internal decay, transformation, or the body’s imperfections. We might expect a figure either literally or metaphorically worm-like, or the worm as symbol.
Kantarovsky frequently uses form to evoke desire, disgust, identity collapse, or small dramas. Worm would continue this engagement: how bodies, forms, creatures exist in liminal psychological spaces, often with social resonance (shame, exposure, status).