Sara Christova

About

Working across painting, installation, performance and audiovisual media, Sara Christova (b.1994, Bulgaria) 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 civilisation. 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.

Diffusing the boundaries between the analog and the digital, the synthetic and the natural, the universal and the subatomic, Christova strives towards an understanding of the poetics and meta-narratives of the human condition. Her choice of commonplace materials and familiar imagery, often in tandem with the human body, helps her challenge the audience to confront the underlying support systems of daily life, allowing the work to act as a form of resistance against the passive consumption of media and systemic perpetuity.

Since graduating Cardiff School of Art and Design (BA Hons Illustration, 2016), Christova has exhibited internationally, notably Tate Modern, National Museum Cardiff, and the Bulgarian National Palace of Culture. Throughout her practice she has collaborated with a wide range of individual artists, collectives and institutions such as tactileBOSCH, IKLECTIK, W1Curates, London Paint Club and LittleBigArt. In 2023 she was awarded a Distinction for her Graduate Diploma in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art, where in she went on to complete an MA in Contemporary Art Practice.