Rooted in a fascination with film and the cinematic, Milena’s practice concerns the politics of looking and the construction of subjectivity. Through painting, she explores how figures, particularly female subjects, are framed, perceived, and contained. This focus is deeply personal; growing up in a family of four sisters, she often draws on her female relatives as muses, finding in them both intimacy and strength. Abstraction becomes a way to blur and fragment these representations, figures emerge and dissolve through gestural brushwork, echoing the instability of how subjects are seen and known. Her work reflects on how identity and experience are negotiated through visual language, opening a space where the gaze is unsettled and where perception and control intersect through the act of watching and being watched.