Alexandra Grüner - Selfportrait

Self-Portrait is a painting by Alexandra Gruner that reflects her personal experience with migraine. Rather than focusing on a literal likeness, the work translates neurological sensation into visual form. Distortions of light, pressure, and spatial disorientation are rendered through subtle tonal shifts and layered gestures.

Gruner paints from within the experience itself, capturing the tension between control and vulnerability. The result is a portrait not of the face, but of perception—how the body feels when it is overwhelmed. The work resists narrative and instead foregrounds the sensory and affective dimension of illness.