Anna Bila - Tender Collision - XL

Anna Bila — Tender Collision — XL

2026
Ink and pigments on lightly primed cotton canvas
Living Stones series

Tender Collision belongs to Anna Bila’s ongoing Living Stones series.

Three translucent organic forms occupy the canvas, approaching and touching one another at several precise points. Their shapes remain deliberately ambiguous — they may evoke stones, fragments of bodies, petals or unfamiliar living structures without fully becoming any of them.

The title refers to the tension created by these encounters. Despite the scale and visual weight of the forms, their contact remains soft and fragile. The painting exists between separation and connection, stability and transformation.

The canvas is lightly prepared with diluted primer, allowing the surface to remain absorbent. Bila works with water, inks and pigments, often placing the canvas on the floor and changing its position while working. Gravity, absorption and the movement of liquid become part of the image-making process.

The artist intervenes continuously — directing the flow, removing pigment, adding layers and responding to unexpected changes in the material. This balance between intention and unpredictability is central to her practice.

About the artist

Anna Bila is a Ukrainian visual artist currently living and working in Turin, Italy.

The continuous process of becoming lies at the core of her artistic practice. She is interested in transitional states, when a person, an image, or a form exists between two conditions — no longer what it once was, but not yet something new.

For the artist, nothing in the world is ever truly complete. Living and non-living nature alike are in a constant state of transformation, whether those changes unfold within seconds or over much longer periods of time.

Her earlier works were predominantly figurative, with portraits connected to childhood, adolescence and the way memory continuously reshapes our perception of people. Later, through working with fluid materials, forms resembling flowers began to emerge. Gradually, the human figure ceased to be necessary, while the interest in transformation remained.

Selected exhibitions

2025 — “JUICY JUNE”
Group exhibition, Marktgalerie, Düsseldorf, Germany

2022 — “DESENSITISATION”
Solo exhibition, Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Odesa, Ukraine

2022 — “SENSING PLACES, PLACING SENSE”
Group exhibition, ODP Galerie, Leipzig, Germany

2022 — “ODESA REFLECTIONS”
Group exhibition, GOLAB, Milan, Italy

Official website: annabila.art

The artwork is an original, unique work, hand-signed by the artist and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.

The painting will be carefully shipped rolled in a protective tube, without a stretcher, for safe international transportation.

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