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A kiss unseen but deeply felt — intimacy held in silence, closeness woven into threads.
In Bound, Ani Abakumova reinterprets René Magritte’s The Lovers, transforming its haunting veiled kiss through the delicate architecture of thread. Two figures lean toward one another, faces wrapped and obscured, yet their closeness radiates through the tension of the weave. The brass nails anchor the structure, while the threads veil and connect, making the act of intimacy both inaccessible and undeniable.
Unlike Magritte’s vision of permanent concealment, Bound suggests that intimacy does not require full visibility. Love here exists in what is withheld as much as in what is shared, in the quiet tension between concealment and connection. The work becomes not just an homage but an expansion: a meditation on the unseen dimensions of intimacy, where tenderness binds beyond sight, in silence, vibration, and memory.Try it!
