17 wounds(Objects, photography) , 2024
17 Bulgarian women murdered since the beginning of 2024. There is a lack of up-to-date statistics on victims of domestic violence.
Advertisement for finding national happiness(Temporary Social Experiment), 2024
(Print, photograpy, urban environment)
Is happiness institutionalized and to what extent does the political environment influence the collective and individual sense of satisfaction? Were we happier under communism? Will we be happier if we leave the European Union or if we enter the Eurozone?Will we be happier if corruption in Bulgaria disappears? Would we be happier if we had better access to health care, to a justice system, and to quality education? Will we benefit from a new social order and will it make us individually happy or collectively happy? Can collective happiness also be individual, or does everyone "see" happiness differently?Does God make us happy? What about nationalism?
* щастие - happiness
Trying so hard to be pretty
(A step-by-step makeup tutorial in red), 2023
*video stills, printed on 250 gms paper*
(A step-by-step makeup tutorial in red), 2023
*video stills, printed on 250 gms paper*
Trying so hard to be pretty part II
(A step-by-step makeup tutorial in blue), 2023
*video stills*
(A step-by-step makeup tutorial in blue), 2023
*video stills*
Trying so hard...
(Red is for shame), 2023
*Video and sound*
'Trying so hard' is a self-portrait video, modestly visualizing the pressure of ever-changing beauty standards and the struggle to fit in the contemporary concepts of femininity. Exaggerating and overdoing makeup is a way of masking one's insecurities and their inability to accept themselves; the color red, commonly associated with womanhood, is also the body's natural way of expressing shame.
(Red is for shame), 2023
*Video and sound*
'Trying so hard' is a self-portrait video, modestly visualizing the pressure of ever-changing beauty standards and the struggle to fit in the contemporary concepts of femininity. Exaggerating and overdoing makeup is a way of masking one's insecurities and their inability to accept themselves; the color red, commonly associated with womanhood, is also the body's natural way of expressing shame.
I am a blank canvas
(Reinventing myself)
2023
/Self-portraits in double exposure, digital collage/
(Reinventing myself)
2023
/Self-portraits in double exposure, digital collage/
