Alena Rakova is Lisbon based artist known as Exantres. Alena holds professional degree in Environmental Design from Moscow Art and Industry Institute.Before focusing exclusively on painting and playing music under the XNTRS alias, Alena has worked as freelance stylist for fashion and commercial photoshoots and videos.

In her works, Alena relies on feelings and sensations. One of the most important goals is sincerity with herself. Ideas come on their own. These are either internal states, experiences or reflection on events, but it is always a flow. Alena works without sketches, immediately with a large canvas and completely trusting her feelings and leaving the viewer to communicate one-on-one with the painting. Everything you feel is all yours. There's no right or wrong. Despite the fact that the works turn out to be quite biographical, they do not belong to the artist, but to each viewer, reflecting oneself in it.