“The Kiss, alongside The Unequal Marriage, brought me to the level of fame I have today. Yet unlike The Unequal Marriage, it carries an entirely different energy. If the latter is a statement, The Kiss feels like a fleeting glimpse into an intimate moment between two people absorbed in each other. It does not proclaim anything loudly — and that is precisely its meaning: a fragile, elusive, emerging feeling of love. It may hold an entire life within it — or nothing at all. And that would not make it any less meaningful. This work is about the self-sufficiency of a moment.” — Masha Yankovskaya