No Blood Relations
In previous years, Boryana Petkova’s artistic practice was focused on performative drawing, presenting the energy of the creative act as a gesture towards understanding the context in which the work takes place. The artist’s hand movements outlined, in pencil, and on various surfaces, her desire to reach and master the physical territories of subjective personal space. Exploring the boundaries - those we inflict on ourselves and those externally imposed on us as part of her artistic philosophy, personifies the natural human urge in search of our hidden essence. Petkova’s latest performances [...]