Arian Christiaens / Xenia painting They capture the transient structures

They capture the transient structures of human presence

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Arian Christiaens / Xenia painting They capture the transient structuresXenia is a combination of recent and past portraits that Arian Christiaens made of her sister. Christiaens uses the act of making portraits as an attempt to communicate and understand her sisters personality. Xenia handles the search for identity and how people struggle with fitting in society. Next to this search for identity, Christiaens also addresses the limitations of portraiture and the inability of photography to tell the truth. What is