Dimitrina Sevova, Swiss-Bulgarian artist. Holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of the Arts ZHdK, Zurich, and graduated in the painting class of Prof. Andrei Daniel at the National Academy of Art, Sofia. She also completed a MAS Curating from the Institute for Cultural Studies in the Arts of ZHdK.

Dimitrina Sevova’s artistic practices are situated in the space that collapses between painting and sculpture. She experiments with different stages of clay and the fragility of the material, from hand-built or cast ceramic or porcelain objects and vessels to sculptures and environments of ephemeral wall paintings of raw clay slip mixed with pigments. She is concerned with expanding painting, looking to achieve cracking or unusual surfaces. As in alchemy, working with these materials requires a mutual affinity between the artist and the material. Her works are often shown in site-specific and contextual installations that use various additional media, from found objects, drawings, photography or time-based media, involving strategies of play to reflect current technological dispositives. Research is a method and a way of creating based on scientific realism with its objective reality, which Sevova translates through her imagination into ambiguous, performative, subjective states of matters and objects. In her work, she shifts her perspective between two systems, on the one hand the representational models and figurative fictions and on the other the abstract, concrete, and performative qualities of reality and materiality itself. Between micro and macro, a mysterious manifestation of natural and technological magic underlines the dark undertone of poetic ecologies and earthly muds.

The motto of her practices is deskill craft, re-skill art to reconnect thinking with making.