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A large abstract wall art piece displayed in a gallery space, featuring a dark textured composition with a central horizontal void and vertical gold-toned streaks. A black bench is visible in the foreground.
  • A large abstract wall art piece displayed in a gallery space, featuring a dark textured composition with a central horizontal void and vertical gold-toned streaks. A black bench is visible in the foreground.
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  • Abstract textured artwork featuring a dark horizontal band with a pair of pale eyes looking forward, set against a mottled gray and gold background with distressed metallic-looking textures.
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  • Abstract textured artwork with a dark horizontal band across the center and a partially visible human eye on the right side, set against cracked black, gray, and gold surfaces.
  • An abstract textured artwork featuring a pair of white eyes peering through a dark horizontal fissure, surrounded by layered charcoal, gray, black, and metallic gold tones.
  • A large abstract wall art piece displayed in a gallery space, featuring a dark textured composition with a central horizontal void and vertical gold-toned streaks. A black bench is visible in the foreground.
  • A large textured painting or canvas print featuring a dark, moody scene with a horizontal slit of light revealing a pair of glowing eyes. The artwork has a split color identity with dark charcoal and black on the left, and warm gold and brown tones on the right.
  • Abstract textured artwork featuring a dark horizontal band with a pair of pale eyes looking forward, set against a mottled gray and gold background with distressed metallic-looking textures.
  • A dark, textured artwork depicting a human face peering through cracked black and gold plaster-like surfaces, with the eyes and nose area most prominent.
  • Abstract textured artwork with a dark horizontal band across the center and a partially visible human eye on the right side, set against cracked black, gray, and gold surfaces.
  • An abstract textured artwork featuring a pair of white eyes peering through a dark horizontal fissure, surrounded by layered charcoal, gray, black, and metallic gold tones.
Beauty through darkness

Beauty through darkness

Dhs. 12,000.00
Dhs. 12,000.00

A presence emerges from within the darkness, where beauty is not revealed by escaping what surrounds it, but by existing through it.

Original artwork by Cristina Gabriela.

Beauty Through Darkness explores the fragile place where darkness and beauty cease to be opposites.

A monumental, eroded surface occupies the canvas, built through layers of texture, black, muted earth and traces of buried gold. Across it, a narrow rupture interrupts the material. From within that opening, a human gaze quietly emerges.

The face is never fully given. It remains suspended between appearance and disappearance, as though the darkness has allowed only a fragment of its presence to become visible.

Here, darkness is not emptiness. It carries time, memory, uncertainty and everything that cannot easily be named. The traces of gold that survive beneath the surface do not conquer it; they exist within it, appearing and disappearing according to light and distance.

The gaze becomes the most vulnerable element of the work—a silent presence surrounded by something immense, yet never entirely consumed by it.

Beauty Through Darkness speaks of a beauty that does not require darkness to disappear. It exists through it. Perhaps even because we have known darkness, we become capable of recognising light.

Artwork details

Medium: Oil and texture on canvas
Dimensions: 120 × 160 cm
Year: 2026
Original: One-of-a-kind artwork
Signed: Yes

Professionally packed and shipped worldwide.

This artwork is accompanied by a signed Certificate of Authenticity issued by the artist.
Shipping & Delivery

Each work travels with the care it deserves. Shipping is included in the price and available worldwide. For collectors in Dubai, white-glove delivery is offered — the work is brought to you and placed with full attention. Studio collection is also available by appointment.