MONOCHROME, SERIES OF PAINTINGS
Ongoing project started in 2023.
Media: Painting.
MONOCHROME is a body of work that explores questions of identity, belonging, and the search for home through a visceral, abstract visual language. Built around a restrained, predominantly black palette, the series is driven by strong contrasts and tensions, evoking states of presence and absence, strength and vulnerability, order and collapse.
The paintings emerge from bodily movement and rhythm, resulting in gestural, almost performative marks with calligraphy-like qualities. These repeated signs accumulate into a cryptic visual system: an intuitive, non-verbal script that feels both ancient and futuristic, coded yet instinctive. Rather than forming readable text, this “alphabet” operates on a subconscious level, translating experiences of displacement and inner states into rhythm and trace.
Like fragments of a language or artifacts from an unknown culture, the works suggest an attempt to build a temporary home within painting itself: a space where the body leaves its imprint, where identity is registered through repetition and tension, and where meaning remains open, fluid, and in constant formation.

THE ELEMENT (2023) — Acrylic on cotton canvas, LED tube light, hardware. 170 x 240 cm diptych.

MOMENTUM OF BECOMING (2024) — acrylic on COTTON canvas, 110 x 95 cm.

KINETIC BALANCE (2024) — acrylic on COTTON canvas, 120 x 100 cm.

Autonomous Flying Complex (2025) — acrylic on COTTON canvas, 160 x 130 cm.

Autonomous Flying Complex (2025) — acrylic on COTTON canvas, 160 x 130 cm.

FRAGMENT oF THE RESONANCE (2025) — acrylic, led tube, hardware, COTTON canvas. DIPTYCH: 110 x 140 cm.

unspoken (2025) — acrylic on COTTON canvas, 100 x 100 cm diptych.

PAINTINGS FROM MONOCHROME series. OPEN STUDIOS AT GLOGAUAIR ART RESIDENCY, BERLIN (2023).

FEEL (2023) — acrylic on COTTON canvas, 100 x 100 cm.

CHAOS AND ORDER (2023) — acrylic on COTTON canvas, 100 x 100 cm.

HOPE (2023) — mixed media on cotton canvas, 100 x 100 cm.

HOPE - DETAIL (2023) — mixed media on cotton canvas, 100 x 100 cm.

NOVA (2024) — acrylic on COTTON canvas, 180 x 80 cm.

NOVA - DETAIL (2024) — acrylic on COTTON canvas, 180 x 80 cm.

THE POWER OF TWO (2024) — acrylic on COTTON canvas, 180 x 80 cm. LENA ZAK' SOLO EXHIBITION AT SPÄTIBROS, BERLIN (2024).

THE POWER OF TWO - DETAIL (2024) — acrylic on COTTON canvas, 180 x 80 cm.

AS LIGHT AS AN INSTINCT (2024). 'LENA ZAK' SOLO EXHIBITION AT SPÄTIBROS, BERLIN (2024).

AS LIGHT AS AN INSTINCT (2024) — acrylic, SPRAY PAINT, LED LIGHT TUBE on COTTON canvas, 180 x 80 cm.

AS LIGHT AS AN INSTINCT (2024) — acrylic, SPRAY PAINT, LED LIGHT TUBE on COTTON canvas, 180 x 80 cm.

PAINTINGS FROM MONOCHROME SERIES, 'AUTUMN SELECTION' EXHIBITION AT PANDORA GALLERY kreuzberg, BERLIN (2024).

PAINTINGS FROM MONOCHROME SERIES, 'AUTUMN SELECTION' EXHIBITION AT PANDORA GALLERY kreuzberg, BERLIN (2024).