Marina Antonova
Illustrator merging painterly style with modern themes
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My series Ghosting explores what remains after connection fades. The series was born from reflections on online intimacy — conversations that vanish, relationships that dissolve into silence. These figures inhabit a space between presence and absence, painted in translucent...
In this series, I explore the emotional geometry of Parisian evenings — the tension between interior and exterior, warmth and distance. Cafés appear as sanctuaries of light, fragile and temporary. Figures dissolve into the night, half real, half reflection.
French literature seems to carry its own distinct color palette. Proust is violet — the fading twilight of memory. Camus is the white-hot sun of Algeria. Colette is bathed in gold, filled with the late-afternoon light of the Palais-Royal.
And then there’s Georges Simenon: pure,...
In this series, Parisian cafés reappear as liminal spaces — half social, half spectral. Figures sit together, yet some are no longer alive; they dissolve into the paper, merge with trees, or glow faintly beneath the surface of color. The technique mirrors the theme. Created...
Les Cafés de Nuit began as an exploration of the spaces where silence and connection coexist. The series captures moments in Paris cafés — once symbols of conversation and presence — now reimagined through the modern loneliness of blue screens and dim reflections.
