Ivilina Kouneva
Braving my way, mixed media cut outs collage, 59x58 cm., 2024
Surrealism together with magic realism forms a substantial part of Ivilina Kouneva's source of inspiration. She is attracted to works of art, where World is perceived as multi-layered, where events "happen" together, with desired lines and intertwined spaces that shift unexpectedly.
The Heroine's Journey, paint, drawing, cut outs collage on fabriano paper, 149x161 cm., 2021
Fragile Balance, acrylic, graphite, gesso on glossy paper, 100x70 cm., 2022
Ivilina Kouneva employs colour, drawing and often "draws with scissors", creating cut outs compositions.
She likes to insert her and other artists' discarded creations, seeing it as collaborations through space and time.
This is an ongoing, fluid process, where curiosity and experiment take essential part.
Through her artworks Ivilina articulates the fragility of life, putting in the centre a resilient female,
who braves her way through life uncertainties. Following forking paths of narratives, stories unfold other stories in one surreal and dreamlike layered world.
