Above and Below: Nell'ombra mia dormiva il tempo, 2011, 120 x 80cm, pastel on oiled paper.
Below: Noli me tangere, 2011, 120x80cm, pastel on layers of
oiled paper.
Below: Tree Performance, at Muzeo della Scienza e della
Tecnica Leonardo DaVinci.
In Emila’s words:
The artist searches the
body, the ego projected, the vision of being and feeling, through drawings, paintings, and performance. It is a body yearning to free itself through difficult and twisting
poses. Moments where we curl up and think, and regret, and learn to forget or
dream. These are the moments where we lose the contact with the flesh and we become
spirit: Layers of feelings, stains and indefinite colours or non-colours.
The artist uses several layers in among paper and drawings.
As in a stream of consciousness or memory, impressions are sometimes both blurred
and clear simultaneously.
The past, as an ideal place - a neverland - which holds
fragments of materiality, sometimes high, sometimes low, sometimes whispered,
always telling stories about dreaming and living bodies:
Feminine figures that project the unconscious, female
primitive instinct of the artist herself.
Below: Work in progress for Paper Swan.
Images from the Paper Swan Collection
Below: Kaliakra III, 2011, 120x80cm, pastel on oiled paper
Below: Kaliakra V, 2011, 120x80cm, pastel on oiled paper
Below: Breathe Me
Below: My Immaculate Dream
Below: Lost You Somewhere.
Below: Lost You Somewhere ( detail ).
Below: Contemporary Times Exhibition, Rome. Sponsored by UniCredit Italia.
Photos: Thomas Pagani
Below: Kaliakra, Palermo. Emila Sirakova Solo Exhibition
- Opening Night
Below: Portrait of the Artist at Accademia Di Brera, Milan
You can see more of Emila’s work at:
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Emila was born in Sophia, Bulgaria, and now lives and works in Milan,
Italy.
