Level Loading, 2016

A contemporary Russian artist, Maria Semenskaya graduated from the Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design. At the moment, she lives and works in Moscow. Her works have been exhibited in the Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art (Moscow), 11.12 Gallery. The artist gives the landscape background a symbolic depth. The composition employs the eye's tendency to follow conventional lines. The lines keep the gaze within borders, focusing the viewer's attention on the central figure. Maria Semenskaya emphasizes the essential details of the moment, disrupting the usual order of the painting. It unites her works where the person occupies the central place both in semantic and plastic sense.