“Porcelain” 2024

Dimensions: 50 x 40 x 0,3 cm

Medium: Oil and oil sticks on ACM panel

Artist: Victor Seehund

Porcelain (2024) by Victor Seehund is a study in fragility that resists sentimentality. At 50 × 40 cm, it’s intimate in scale but monumental in sensitivity, inviting you to lean in, to linger, to notice the fractures beneath the beauty.

Rendered in oil and oil sticks on ACM panel, the surface feels polished yet wounded. The subject’s pose is graceful, almost classical—eyes closed, lips parted, a hand resting gently at the chin—but the softness is shattered by subtle distortions. Seehund doesn’t idealize; he interrupts. Portions of the face blur, stretch, or seem to dissolve into ghostly white strokes that mimic cracked porcelain—beautiful, but breakable.

There’s a vulnerability here that refuses to be pitied. Instead, Porcelain feels like a reclaiming of delicacy as power. The figure is self-contained, absorbed in her own moment, unaware of—or perhaps indifferent to—the gaze she commands. Seehund’s hand is steady but expressive; his brushwork both caresses and fractures, blurring the boundary between portrait and abstraction.

This is a piece for collectors who are drawn to duality—who understand that the most moving art doesn’t simply depict beauty, but questions it. Porcelain is not about perfection. It’s about presence, tension, and the quiet strength that lives in softness.