Viktoria Plotnikova’s Confrontation is a series of ink drawings that treats the personal and the philosophical as inseparable. The works explore the tension between individual identity and the structures that shape and limit us, using the human figure as a tree as a recurring metaphor. Trees stand as carriers of memory, time, and contradiction, at once rooted and reaching, marked by damage and growth.

The tea-stained paper adds its own sense of history, softening the ink while holding traces of wear and ritual, and the use of ink emphasizes commitment and consequence, since each mark cannot be undone. Linked to the theme Obscured Organisms, the series reflects on hidden fears, inherited silence, and the protective layers people build around themselves, presenting the drawings as quiet acts of resistance that ask the viewer to look inward rather than react loudly.