Boryana Petkova
40x20x10 cm, graphite powder, placed in a glass container
I made two drawings - one on the wall in my studio (dimensions 2.30x1.80cm) and the other on a sheet of paper (dimensions 50x65cm.), which I placed in a frame. Then I applied the framed one to the one on the wall and deleted the whole drawing that was outside the frame.
The powder from this drawing is placed in the box for the "Herbarium" collection. On the wall in my studio is still the other part of the drawing – the one, that was framed.
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Boryana Petkova (born in 1985 in Sofia, Bulgaria) lives and works between Paris and Sofia.
Graduated from the National Academy of Art in Sofia (2011) and École Supérieure d'Art et de Design (2015) in Valenciennes, France.
She is a multidisciplinary artist working with performance, drawing, installation, and video. Her work is raw and emotionally charged, often autobiographical and intimate. Through the body and movement, she explores vulnerability and strength as interconnected states, using failure and self-destruction as foundations for transformation and reconstruction. The marks and scars of the body become visual links between personal and collective memory.
Rejecting categorization, her practice aims not to create boundaries but to dissolve them. Dreaming is her primary tool—a force of resistance that rises from within and beyond systems of belonging and established norms.
Website: boryanapetkova.com
Graduated from the National Academy of Art in Sofia (2011) and École Supérieure d'Art et de Design (2015) in Valenciennes, France.
She is a multidisciplinary artist working with performance, drawing, installation, and video. Her work is raw and emotionally charged, often autobiographical and intimate. Through the body and movement, she explores vulnerability and strength as interconnected states, using failure and self-destruction as foundations for transformation and reconstruction. The marks and scars of the body become visual links between personal and collective memory.
Rejecting categorization, her practice aims not to create boundaries but to dissolve them. Dreaming is her primary tool—a force of resistance that rises from within and beyond systems of belonging and established norms.
Website: boryanapetkova.com