Tania Rivilis works in a wide rang of themes and techniques, though she is mostly recognizable by her signature expressive male portraits. Her creative process is about honoring a craft, a process, a passion. Using vivid colors and bold brushstrokes, she seeks the boundaries of the portrait genre. Combining empty areas and competing color fields, the artist suggests the viewer to wander around the canvas and read the stories her characters are eager to tell. Tania says that even in the single portraits she emphasizes the presence of the silent conversation partner, of the relationship behind the imprinted scene. She insists that one can only be portrayed through a prism of a relationship with another to create a coherent image. Otherwise the portrait would only be an empty shell.