YveYANG is pleased to announce Anna-Maria Škroba’s second solo exhibition in New York, I’m raining before the rain.

In this new body of work, Anna-Maria Škroba revisits drawings and photographs, translating them into paintings through a process that privileges intuition over exact replication. Rather than tracing or reproducing images with precision, each canvas becomes an act of rediscovery, remaining faithful to the original composition while allowing room for transformation, ambiguity, and imagination.

This approach shifts the focus from representation to perception. As figures emerge on the canvas, the spaces surrounding them simultaneously materialize and dissolve, creating environments that resist fixed definition. The paintings often center on solitary figures, yet these scenes extend beyond narrative. They suggest an elusive presence, something that cannot be fully named but is undeniably felt. If drawing and photography capture a moment, painting extends it, allowing its atmosphere to unfold over time rather than remain fixed within an instant.

Occupying a state between certainty and openness, the works inhabit the subtle territory of the threshold: neither fully here nor entirely elsewhere. The threshold is less a destination than a direction, a vector of movement, possibility, and becoming. At the heart of the exhibition is an exploration of the relationship between the individual and the space they inhabit. Movement, both physical and psychological, depends upon this relationship. Even when a figure is posed, Škroba approaches the subject as a person inhabiting a particular situation rather than as an anatomical form.

Rather than offering definitive narratives, the exhibition allows the atmosphere of each painting to continue unfolding, where stillness itself becomes a form of movement.