Intoxicated” 2024

Dimensions: 40 x 30 x 0,3 cm

Medium: Oil paint on ACM panel

Artist: Victor Seehund

Intoxicated (2024) by Victor Seehund is a compact, visceral portrait of emotional overload. At 40 × 30 cm, it draws the viewer uncomfortably close, offering not a full figure, but a fragment: a tilted jawline, a hand brushing the face, a mouth just barely open. The upward angle creates a sense of exposure, like something private is slipping out before it can be contained.

The paint handling is assertive and unpolished—thick gestures in flesh tones and deep blacks pull the face between structure and dissolution. There’s no attempt to flatter or idealize. Instead, Seehund delivers something closer to sensation: a face mid-shift, mid-thought, caught in whatever exists just before clarity.

The title suggests a loss of control, and the composition follows through, not with drama, but with restraint. It’s not about chaos, but the threshold right before it. Intoxicated resists narrative; it’s not trying to tell a story. It just sits in the feeling, and lets the paint do the rest. A sharp, quiet piece that knows exactly what it's doing.