into a Familiar Body
2022 - Ongoing
2025 - Ongoing
2025
The painting is divided into two sections by a horizontal line that is broken by the upper section, which is composed of non-figurative shapes resembling smoke and clouds. These forms are painted in grays, warm whites, pale greens, and blues against a puce, burnt-rose–colored background. The brushstrokes are textured and loose, offering a degree of transparency.
A bright sky-cobalt blue line is positioned high in the composition, almost above the clouds and parallel to the horizon.
The lower section is painted in darker tones of brown and green, with elements of gray that loosely suggest a mirroring of the upper section. The brushstrokes here are denser and more layered.
2025 - Ongoing
2025
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The central focus is a series of concentric, elliptical forms drawn in red and brown tones, resembling funnels, bowls, or vessels arranged in a columnar structure. These shapes are layered and interconnected. Within them, in the lower portion, two forms resembling seeds are positioned, their roots extending toward the bottom of the drawing.
Surrounding the central forms are additional lines and scribbles in various shades of yellow, black, and lighter browns. The background is predominantly light gray and white, marked by scattered gestures and cloud-like forms.
A series of drawings that engage with conditions of chronic pain through references to representations of the body found in anatomical atlases. The works portray the sick body as mutable, in motion, and in escape, resisting both verbal description and scientific visual language, as the series emerges from the encounter with the idea that pain often escapes the frameworks given for its description and interpretation.
In response to the depiction of a fixed anatomy, the drawings seek forms that dissolve, repeat, and reorganize, suggesting a body continually renegotiating itself in response to persistent sensation.
Watercolor, pastel, and pencil (21 x 29,7 cm)
2023 - Ongoing
2025
2025
Painting
2023 - Ongoing
Oil crayon, oil, pen on cardboard (15 x 15,5 cm)
The image shows small works arranged in a loose grid against a white background. Each piece I painted on an unfolded piece of cardboard packaging from empty medicine boxes, where fragments of barcodes, drug labeling, and the original box design are visible.
Their surfaces are layered with painterly marks in varied palettes—earthy browns, maroons, reds, deep greens, blacks, and occasional bright blues. Some compositions feature circular or looping gestures, while others are dense and gestural, with smudges, washes, and scribbled lines. In certain pieces, faint drawn elements, such as loose linear sketches or dotted patterns, interact with the painted areas.
2025
Now is Night
2022
@anastasijakiake
My practice engages with the ways social, political, and spiritual conditions are shaped by economies of feeling, ecologies of belonging, and structures of violence. Situated within the context of post-Soviet identity formation, alongside experiences of disability and im/migration in Scandinavia and Western Europe, my work primarily focuses on developing methods for negotiating language and narration.
Last Updated 11.02.2026