La Gioconda visiting her friend Leonardo, reimagined.
Mona Lisa is everywhere. That’s exactly why she works. In this series, I pull a familiar icon out of the museum spotlight and place her into constructed spaces where she can feel human again. Not performing. Not framed for approval. Just present.
The origin point for this work is La Gioconda Visiting Her Old Friend Leonardo. It’s my way of asking what happens when an icon steps outside her assigned role and enters a room built from memory, study, and intention. That approach became the foundation for the Mona Lisa series: light, geometry, pressure, and a clean read.
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This isn’t about “Mona Lisa” as a meme. It’s about what icons do to us, and what we can do with them when we rebuild them with purpose. A familiar face becomes a carrier for something else: belonging, visibility, pressure, calm, resistance, and the feeling of living slightly out of frame, just like in the art, she is no longer framed but fully-embodied live-like.
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Mikhail Oparin 