The deformed and transformed body stopped being a novelty in the first half of the 20^th century. The heritage of two world wars had normalized trauma and suffering. If we study this phenomenon much closer, we will see that all those processes started to evolve at the beginning of the 20^th century and here we can mention Egon Schiele who chose a suffering body as his visual strategy.

In the 1930s surrealists got interested in enigmarelle automaton, they even used it as a performative element at their exhibition openings. All this heritage allowed today's artists to work with the visual approach of the human body in many different ways.

Alyona Rubinshtein is interested in how a body can interpreted into a visual image. In her art, we can see how she quotes Boccioni, Schiele, Dix, and other renowned artists of the past. Her images may seem a little bit grotesque, but magnetizing as well. These mask-looking like faces almost hypnotize you from the very first glance. As a matter of fact, there is something theatrical about it… This aspect can be connected to Rubinshtein's other professional activity – she is a theatre professional, a director, if we talk much more specifically. So, she had dedicated a lot of her time to succeeding in this area. Maybe, the interference of this sphere makes her imagery so interesting.