Sara Christova
Contemporary Art Practice MA
Royal College of Art
Specialisms: Fine Art / Installation/Sculpture / Painting
Location: London, United Kingdom
Sara Christova
First Name: Sara
Last Name: Christova
Specialisms: Fine Art / Installation/Sculpture / Painting
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My Location: London, United Kingdom
University / College: Royal College of Art
Course / Program Title: Contemporary Art Practice MA
About
Working across painting, installation, performance and audiovisual media, Sara Christova explores phenomenology, transdimensionality and the art of navigating with no horizon.Embracing alternative modes of perception and notions of distortion, decay and resonance, Christova’s work merges philosophy, physics and digital culture in a critique of the entropic nature of a global, networked civilization. Her approach to contemporary life, spirituality and the sciences as entwined ontological narratives, allows her to investigate the liquid, fluctuating nature of these frameworks through intersections ubiquitous to our present moment in time.Emphasising the disjointed and non-linear experience of time in the digital era and the notion that linear timelines are an altogether fictional construct, she aims to better understand how contemporary myths, accelerationism and xenotemporality merge to produce an explicit and tactile impression of what it means to exist in an age of compounding crises.
Since graduating from Cardiff School of Art and Design (BA Hons Illustration, 2016), Christova's work has been exhibited internationally (notably Tate Modern Lates, the Bulgarian National Palace of Culture, and National Museum Cardiff), and has collaborated with a range of artists, collectives and institutions (IKLECTIK, W1Curates, Genesis Cinema, tactileBOSCH, London Paint Club). In 2023 she was awarded a Distinction for her Graduate Diploma in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art, where she went on to complete her MA in Contemporary Art Practice.
LOCUS SOLUS is a speculation on the post-organic stage of our planetary timeline. Volcanic gravel in the configuration of an evaporated ocean floor, the fragile spectres leaking from the cracks of a liquid crystal display, copper crystals taking over touchscreen devices, the glitchy crackle of a geiger counter — contextually charged matter transformed by imagined geological entropy and the indisputable touch of the proverbial human hand. Referring to a ‘unique’ or ‘solitary’ place, LOCUS SOLUS quietly questions how far our current exploitation of the Earth’s resources might ripple through an uncertain future, inviting macrospective reflection through direct sensory references to the geopolitical conditions of our extended present.
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