The painting “Untitled” shows a head seen from behind. In it what we think of as real vanishes, and is filtered through and mingled with a more abstract world. Leonor Ruiz Dubrovin’s art is largely based on juxtaposing different relationships of opposites, such as the representative and the suggestive or the real and the fictive. She explores our perceptions of reality, the subconscious, and for that she uses potential psychological and metaphorical images. A lot revolves around the concept of identity and how identity is preserved.

Leonor Ruiz Dubrovin (b. 1978) is of Spanish and Finnish-Swedish descent. She grew up in Madrid, but did her art studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Finland. She had a solo exhibition at Gallery Elverket in Ekenäs in 2019 and has taken part in several group exhibitions, for instance, in Spain, Germany, Denmark and Austria. Dubrovin has also made organic sculptures, for instance, on the theme of death. She has drawn inspiration for her works from the European painting tradition, including Dutch 16th-century still lifes.