Vienna 1994 I
Oil on Canvas
34″x42″
2021

Vienna 1994 II
Oil on Canvas
34″x42″
2021

Manos en Matrimonio
Oil on Canvas
12″x11″
2021

Sonia Miklaucic’s portraits intervene in her past as personified by family photographs. Taking inspiration from a wedding snapshot in which her parents look into each other’s eyes, Miklaucic separates the couple into two individually painted portraits and reimagines a historical moment through the act of splitting. The resulting diptych magnifies the uncanniness that pervades the original moment, creating an intensely quiet and haunting scene that projects the future before its subjects realize what’s to come.

Sonia Miklaucic’s work appears in Retro/Intro.