Survival

Title:
Survival
Artist:
Shorna Abedin
Year:
2026
Medium:
Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions:
60 × 90 cm
(23.6 × 35.4 inches)
Style:
Contemporary Abstract / Expressive Abstraction
Figurative suggestion, embodied form

Description:
Survival is an embodied meditation on endurance.
Against an intense red field, a vertical, human-like form rises—neither triumphant nor defeated, but present. The structure suggests a spine, a tree, a body holding itself upright under pressure. At its center, a restrained yellow core marks persistence: heat, life, or consciousness that refuses collapse.
Rather than depicting crisis, the work concentrates on what remains. Gesture and chromatic tension carry vulnerability without surrender, framing survival not as victory, but as sustained presence.
Survival speaks to a collective condition—quiet, unspectacular, and necessary.