Resilience

• Paper size: 29,5 x 41,8 cm (11.6 x 16.45 in)
• Image size: 25,6 × 39,3 cm (10.07 × 15.47 in)
• Limited edition of: 15
• Number of this edition: 04/15
• Hand-signed and numbered by: Séfora
• Paper: Creative Smooth Watercolor, 240 g/m². Archival quality with a framing margin.
• Certificate of Authenticity: Yes

From the series Female Portraits: Looking Back to the Past

Resilience forms part of Séfora Camazano’s ongoing series Female Portraits: Looking Back to the Past, in which portraiture becomes a space for memory, dignity, and critical reflection. Through women whose lives have been shaped by displacement, survival, and social adversity, the series questions how conflict, identity, and political structures continue to define the experience of women today.

The work portrays Alevtyna, a music teacher originally from Russia who was forced to flee the Donbass region of Ukraine with her family after the outbreak of war. Their journey into exile led them to Spain, where, despite years of uncertainty and instability, they struggled to obtain official recognition and protection. Only after the escalation of the broader Russia–Ukraine conflict were they finally granted refugee status.

Rather than approaching portraiture as documentation alone, Camazano constructs a symbolic image in which presence becomes declaration. Alevtyna’s figure embodies a quiet yet unwavering strength — a reflection of endurance shaped through displacement, uncertainty, and perseverance. Her continued dedication to music throughout years of instability transforms the portrait into more than a personal narrative: it becomes a meditation on art as refuge, resistance, and emotional survival.

The series is distinguished by its fusion of photography, digital painting, and manual intervention, resulting in works of strong material presence and conceptual depth. Each edition is produced to museum standards as a Fine Art Giclée print on archival-quality paper, and is individually signed and numbered by the artist.

The original artwork has been acquired for a distinguished private collection, where it now resides as a unique and unrepeated piece within an exclusive curatorial context. Only the limited edition Fine Art prints remain available for acquisition.

To acquire Resilience is to enter into dialogue with a work that transcends representation: a reflection on perseverance, human dignity, and the enduring power of creativity in the face of conflict and displacement.