CRUX GALLERY PRESENTS THE NEVER EVER LAND BY FOTINI POULIA

This is a strong and unsettling body of work, grounded in the feeling of being alone with borrowed

emotions. Poulia’s paintings resemble cinematic stills stripped of narrative certainty images taken

from films and documentaries, photographed directly from a laptop screen and removed from their

original function and storytelling. Dramatic lighting, heavy curtains, and dark green-blue tones

heighten a sense of psychological suspension, producing a deliberate emotional distance. Staring

into the vain, the paintings are post-consumed, stripped from their own story, a metaphor for the life

of others, while our emotions unfold secondhand through screens, incestuous fragments, and paused

images.