“Turmoil” 2024

Dimensions: 130 x 97 cm

Medium: Mirror pieces and oil paint on linen canvas

Artist: Victor Seehund

“Turmoil” (2024) by Victor Seehund is a striking interrogation of identity and inner chaos, brought to life through a dramatic interplay of mirror fragments and sensual oil brushstrokes. At 130 × 97 cm, its scale is boldly human—the size of a life preserver—yet its fragmented surface splinters our gaze into countless reflections and reconstructions.

This piece isn’t portraiture—it’s a psychological mirror made literal. In the center, a face emerges from swirling pigment and broken reflections, half-concealed by darkness and glinting shards. The mirror pieces don’t merely decorate; they disrupt, catching light, distorting features, and mocking the notion of a fixed self. Oil paint flows around these reflective fragments, softening edges, bleeding into canvas, creating a tension between solidity and dissolution.

Turmoil operates on two levels: one, as a visceral emotional landscape—anxiety, fragmentation, self-awareness; two, as a material exploration—how paint and reflective surfaces contend and converse. It’s as if the sitter is caught mid-crash: identity colliding with self-perception, held together only by bristled brushwork and fractured glass.

This piece demands presence. It confronts you—both your reflection and your emotional response. For a collector drawn to psychological depth, Turmoil offers a rare combination: technical precision, sculptural texture, and raw introspective force. A work that breaks you open, and then, just maybe, shows you something new in the shards.