Suffering

Suffering

Artist: Sandra Chaves
Title: Suffering
Technique: Micron pen on paper (Pointillism and Hatching)
Dimensions (with frame): 32 cm × 42 cm
Edition: Unique piece from 2022
Original signed work | Includes certificate of authenticity

Description:

"The scream that tears through silence is the rawest form of existence."

In this intense work, pain takes on shape, face, and voice — even without sound. The scream of the portrayed figure bursts from the image with raw, instinctive, visceral force. There is no restraint, no mask. The suffering here is not quiet, not private, not hidden. It is exposed — stripped to the bone — as if every dot drawn were a pulsing cell of despair.

The rigorous, meticulous technique of pointillism and hatching contrasts sharply with the unrestrained emotion of the scene. This opposition between technical control and emotional breakdown amplifies the work’s impact. It is as if the artist were saying: there is beauty even in collapse.

This is a portrait of a human being at their limit, at the very moment when pain spills over and becomes a scream — a scream that asks not for pity, but for witnesses.

Suffering is not a cry for help.
It is testimony.
It is a brutal affirmation of human existence when pierced by the rawest pain.
And in that confrontation, the viewer cannot remain indifferent.