Finalist Conceptual & Fine Art

Wild Within

Olena Kudrenko (aka Olena Shalena) · Switzerland

Conceptual & Fine Art

Subcategory Surrealism

AI Software MidJourney and Magnific

This series explores the primal instincts that live beneath refined human elegance. Each portrait reveals a moment of transformation, where the boundary between human and animal dissolves. Antlers grow from crowns, fur patterns ripple across skin, faces elongate into muzzles — yet the subjects retain poise and dignity, as if aware of their dual nature. Shot in a timeless monochrome style, the works evoke myth, fashion, and ritual all at once. Wild Within is less about disguise than revelation: the untamed spirit hidden beneath cultivated appearances, the beauty of instinct breaking through artifice.