Knife 

Kinder Album’s painting, "Knife", presents us with an unsettling scene in pale hues and stark lines. A figure lies in a bathtub, the geometry of the setting creating a sense of confinement. The knife, centrally placed, acts as a visual disruption, its verticality contrasting sharply with the horizontal repose of the body. The painting's structure evokes a confrontation with mortality and the collapse of idealized forms. Album seems to challenge traditional representations of beauty, replacing it with a frank depiction that unsettles our expectations. The interplay between the coldness of the bathroom setting and the vulnerability of the figure suggests a semiotic tension—a dialogue between exposure and concealment, violence and passivity. Ultimately, the painting uses its formal elements to provoke questions about the body, death, and representation itself. "Knife" functions not just as a visual statement but as a site for critical discourse on the human condition.