Stefania Batoeva – Total Devotion

ALMANAC INN presenta Total Devotion, la prima personale in Italia di Stefania Batoeva, artista bulgara di base a Londra.

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ALMANAC INN presenta Total Devotion, la prima personale in Italia di Stefania Batoeva, artista bulgara di base a Londra.
I quadri prodotti per la mostra continuano un corpus di opere dove i soggetti perdono la loro consistenza simbolica e figurativa. Le forme collassano, suggerendo, invece di definire, il momento in cui un'immagine si solidifica. Corpi fluttuanti, molecole, frammenti si stratificano, trovando il loro equilibrio in una logica interna di ripetizioni e deviazioni. La linearità della narrazione è rotta in una
circolarità e in movimenti tra temporalità e mondi. I confini tra corpi sono persi, dissolti in proiezioni e stratificazioni. Lo spazio è definito da superfici ridistribuite e instabili, proiettando forme e figure, campiture sull'orlo di diventare paesaggi. Sensazioni emergono tra questa architettura, dove l'euforia di nuove riconfigurazioni e desideri formano l'immagine.

ALMANAC INN presents Total Devotion, the first solo exhibition in Italy by London-based Bulgarian artist Stefania Batoeva.
The newly produced paintings in the show continue a body of work where subjects lose their symobolic and figurative consistency. Forms collapse, implying, rather than defining, a moment in which an imagery is solidified. Floating bodies, molecules, fragments stratify, finding their balance in an internal logic of repetition and deviations. The linearity of a narrative is broken into circularity and movements between temporalities and worlds. Boundaries between bodies are lost, dissolved in projections and layering. The space is defined by reshuffling and unstable surfaces, projecting forms and figures, fields on the edge of becoming landscapes. Feelings emerges in between this architecture, where euphoria of new reconfigurations and desire inform the image.

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Stefania Batoeva (b. Sofia, BG) lives and works in London.

2014 Royal College of Art, London

Upcoming
Solo - November - Total Devotion, ALMANAC INN, Turin
Group - Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia (museum)

Selected solo and two person shows:
2017
Winterheart, Ermes-Ermes, Vienna
It Is Forever Ours, two person show with Goran Chanter, curated by Swimming Pool, Sofia at David Dale Gallery, Glasgow
Devoted Iota Elusion, Emalin, London

2016
EXPORTING MARSI REX, Stefania Batoeva & Isaac Lythgoe, dreamt by Guido Santandrea, Palermo

2015
TIA DETH, two person show with Adriano Costa, Emalin, London
SPEEDING TO THE CORNER, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles
Club Caligula (with Ilja Karilampi, Leslie Kulesh and Isaac Lythgoe), Supplement, London

2014
Angela Is Sliding, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest
PAUL, Sariev Contemporary, Plovdiv

2013
Still No Masterplan, ALMANAC, London

Selected group shows:
2017
A Highly Dazed World, Daily Lazy Projects, Athens
All Men By Nature Desire To Know, curated by Joshua Lockwood, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham

2016
FOLLY, Emalin at The Dunmore Pineapple, Scotland
With Institutions Like These, curated by Viktor Wang, The Averard Hotel, London

2015
1(um), BFA Boatos, Sao Paulo
BALCONIA (three person show with Emanuel Röhss and Yves Scherer), SWIMMING POOL, Sofia
You will find me if you want me in the garden, Galerie Valentin, Paris
My Internet Was Down For 5 Minutes So I Went Downstairs And Spoke To My Family. They Seem Like Nice People, Galerie Jeanroch Dard, Brussels

2014
Got tortilla with butter on phone. Think it’s the end?, Rod Barton Gallery, London
MAJESTIC BATHER, 68 square metres, Copenhagen
Dizziness of Freedom, Bermondsey Project, London
Royal College of Art Degree Show, London

2013
'l'Echappée Belle', Kilometre, Grand Palais, Paris
AUTO COUTURE, Automotive Couture, London