Stela Csizmazia
BA photography
London College of Communication UAL
Specialisms: / Photomontage / Writing for the Arts
Location: Bratislava, Slovakia
Stela Csizmazia
First Name: Stela
Last Name: Csizmazia
Specialisms: / Photomontage / Writing for the Arts
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My Location: Bratislava, Slovakia
University / College: London College of Communication UAL
Course / Program Title: BA photography
About
Morphine or Stela Csizmazia (born 2001) is a Slovak-born and London-based emerging visual artist, exploring photography for almost a decade, performing her knowledge and philosophy within divergent practices such as moving image, painting, sculpture, performance, et cetera in innovative, contemporary approach. Confident using both advanced digital and unique analog techniques, Stela establishes an exclusive and intimate look into the human psyché, soul and identity. In her ongoing multi-disciplinary project Genesis 0.2 exhibited in Copeland Gallery, she inspects crucial questions of culture and religion, crossing the boundaries between the beginning and end while creating an eternal inner world. Her unique look into the art world accelerated to winning multiple international photography and design awards, exhibitioning across whole Europe.
A schism is a split or division between strongly opposed sections or parties, caused by differences in opinion or belief. In Christianity, a schism occurs when a single religious body divides and becomes two separate religious bodies. The project started forming in the summer of 2022 when my partner and I were forcefully separated by her parents because of cultural and religious differences. My partner, as a Muslim woman, was not accepted and allowed to have a romantic relationship with another woman. Forbidden to communicate with each other, I started researching the "gap" between us. The Schism is a long-term project mapping the split between two physical bodies, that caused my own, personal split. The work consists of interdisciplinary works exploring my relationship between god and my estranged partner. Gradually, this work becomes my personal, liberating ritual mapping my religious journey and conversion from Christianity to Islam.
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