Arina Gordienko hyperrealist oil painting When Fate Was Tracing Us Behind, depicting a young woman with piercing blue eyes in profile, her face framed by her own hand and a man’s larger hand pressing against her head. She wears a muted grey-blue shirt, set against a stark black background. The composition conveys themes of inevitability, mortality, fate, and human vulnerability, inspired by Arseny Tarkovsky’s poetry.
Arina Gordienko hyperrealist oil painting When Fate Was Tracing Us Behind, depicting a young woman with piercing blue eyes in profile, her face framed by her own hand and a man’s larger hand pressing against her head. She wears a muted grey-blue shirt, set against a stark black background. The composition conveys themes of inevitability, mortality, fate, and human vulnerability, inspired by Arseny Tarkovsky’s poetry.
Arina Gordienko hyperrealist oil painting When Fate Was Tracing Us Behind, depicting a young woman with piercing blue eyes in profile, her face framed by her own hand and a man’s larger hand pressing against her head. She wears a muted grey-blue shirt, set against a stark black background. The composition conveys themes of inevitability, mortality, fate, and human vulnerability, inspired by Arseny Tarkovsky’s poetry.
Arina Gordienko hyperrealist oil painting When Fate Was Tracing Us Behind, depicting a young woman with piercing blue eyes in profile, her face framed by her own hand and a man’s larger hand pressing against her head. She wears a muted grey-blue shirt, set against a stark black background. The composition conveys themes of inevitability, mortality, fate, and human vulnerability, inspired by Arseny Tarkovsky’s poetry.
Arina Gordienko

WHEN FATE WAS TRACING US BEHIND (One-Off)

Material: Oil on Belgian linen
Size: 75 x 105 cm
Date: 2024
Hand-signed on the back and on the side of the painting
Provided with Certificate of Authenticity

This Painting
- Finalist of the BBA Art Prize, International Contemporary Art Contest, Berlin, Germany, 2025
- Exhibited at 10th Anniversary BBA Gallery Exhibition, Kuhlhouse, Berlin, Germany, 2025
- Finalist of ModPortrait, International Portraiture Contest, Barcelona, 2024
- Exhibited at MEAM – European Museum of Modern Art, ModPortrait Exhibition, Barcelona, Spain, 2024

Description
‘…When fate was tracing us behind us
As a madman with a razor in his hand’
(From a poem ‘First Dates’ by Arseny Tarkovsky)

We all know that our life will be ended earlier or later, and we have to face this knowledge and live with it our whole life trying do not think too much about it. It’s our inevitable Fate that is undoubtedly stronger than us. We don’t know what is ahead, what to expect in the next moment. But think – under this absolute certainty that our life is going to end - we dare to live as if we don’t know about it! We are all insanely brave as we live under this fate of unpredictable life ending, as if it’s never going to happen, and we still dare to love, to create, to feel happy and sad, still trying to achieve something as if we live infinitely.

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