Another Sun
2025
Oil on canvas
Veronika Gramotina
40 × 40 cm
“Another Sun” used to be a different unfinished painting, only to become unfinished again in 2023, because I had no clue how to finish it. In 2022, the very first painting made me feel nothing, so, disgusted, I covered it up. In 2023, it was time to paint something new on top, and I had this vision of an overwhelmingly bright sun coming through a heavy storm. While painting, I realized that this scene wasn’t from Earth really - it looked foreign, mysterious, haunting. It felt like something that was boiling inside of me. I fell in love with the upper half of the painting, but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t figure out what should go to the bottom. I repainted the bottom multiple times, but all felt wrong, so I left the painting be for two years.
One day, in 2025, while preparing for my solo show, I looked at it again and suddenly knew how to finish it. During these years, I have changed, matured, gone through a couple of crises, and drawn conclusions. Suddenly, I was ready to embrace the foreignness and weirdness, defy some physics laws, and let the painting live its own life. It was surprisingly easy to finish it.
Just like that, one painting can reveal an iceberg hidden underneath. I haven’t nearly revealed enough about it, but hopefully, enough for you to look at a piece of art from a different perspective.
One day, in 2025, while preparing for my solo show, I looked at it again and suddenly knew how to finish it. During these years, I have changed, matured, gone through a couple of crises, and drawn conclusions. Suddenly, I was ready to embrace the foreignness and weirdness, defy some physics laws, and let the painting live its own life. It was surprisingly easy to finish it.
Just like that, one painting can reveal an iceberg hidden underneath. I haven’t nearly revealed enough about it, but hopefully, enough for you to look at a piece of art from a different perspective.
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Veronika Gramotina (b. 1995) is a Finland-based visual artist and co-founder of The Blue Verve, an art gallery in Helsinki's Design District. Born and raised in Russia with Estonian roots, she has lived, studied and worked in Finland for over a decade. Her artistic practice is anchored in nature, a sense of belonging, longing for connection and unspoken thoughts, rendered as half-remembered, half-magical, half-real. Since 2023, her work has been shown in solo and group shows across Helsinki, Tampere, and Turku.