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The Escape Key

€ 2200 

Valentinos Vassiliou

€ 2200 

Valentinos Vassiliou

In "The Escape Key," Valentinos Vassiliou presents a surreal, emotionally charged scene that explores themes of entrapment, surveillance, and the desperate longing for freedom. A lone hand reaches upward from a chaotic digital sea—constructed from a matrix of blue and white squares—grasping a small, dangling key. This key, metaphorical and literal, becomes a symbol of liberation, held tightly as if it's the last hope in a drowning reality. Above, a glaring green eye encased in a light fixture looms ominously, representing constant observation or a higher authority. The pixelated wave suggests a world breaking down into data or losing touch with reality—a digital flood engulfing the human spirit

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Description

Artist:

Valentinos Vassiliou

Category:

Oil/canvas

Painting

Style:

Impressionism

Size:

5

x

202

x

152

Year:

2025

Materials:

Painting Oil/canvas

Signed:

Yes

No

SKU:

VV-029

Frame:

Yes

No

Artist:

Valentinos Vassiliou

Category:

Oil/canvas

Painting

Style:

Impressionism

Size:

5

x

202

x

152

Frame:

Yes

No

Year:

2025

Materials:

Painting Oil/canvas

Signed:

Yes

No

SKU:

VV-029

Three disembodied, pale faces with wide green-ringed eyes and open mouths hover in the darkness, observing the struggle without offering help. Their expressions are ambiguous—fear, shock, apathy? Vassiliou's use of bold contrasts and stylized figures evokes a sense of psychological tension. The painting confronts the viewer with the question: What does it mean to truly escape, and who decides whether we can? Through abstract symbolism, Vassiliou captures the claustrophobic weight of being watched, the anxiety of drowning in systems beyond our control, and the fragile power of a single key—the potential for escape and agency in an increasingly digitized and alienated world.

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