Dafina Vin

I am a contemporary artist working primarily with abstract portraits and figurative compositions. My art is inspired by the complexity of human emotions and the fragmented way we perceive identity. Using bold colors, strong lines, and geometric forms, I create faces and figures that are both familiar and distorted.
My practice is guided by the belief that art must go beyond surfaces: It’s important to me to move out of the digital and step into raw emotions with art.
Through bold lines, vibrant color fields, and expressive brushwork, I explore how movement and feeling can be made visible. My current series, Emovere (Latin for “to move, to stir emotions”), investigates the intensity of human presence in its most direct form. Each painting is both a gesture and a fragment of raw inner life — imperfect, immediate, and unapologetically emotional.

Foundation Course in Fine Arts, Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), Zurich, Switzerland

Currently preparing first for exhibitions. More Info on my Instagram.