Aleksandra Marinova

Aleksandra Marinova is a Bulgarian interdisciplinary artist born in Cyprus, Limassol in 1998. She is currently based in Bulgaria/UK. She attended the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland (2016-2019).

'My practice is the sharply bipolar division of the representational and the non-representational. I am concerned with the human subject and the ways in which contemporary art engages with- and points at it, metaphorically and literally. It is no secret that since the departure of postmodern and conceptual artistic practices, the artworld is experiencing a state of disturbance, confusion, uncertainty - the material identity of the aesthetic object is 'unfixed' - '...the end of medium specificity, which has given way in artistic practice to a mobile, variable, or indeterminate relation between the terms of a work and its material means. It is no longer understood necessarily to take only one form - indeed, it may not require a concrete form of any kind.' (Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, March 2012). Finding myself a practitioner existing in that turmoil, I am constantly testing the conditions on which artmaking operates and trying to identify current problems with it: is painting still alive? Haven't we all seen what paintin...

B.A (Hons) Fine Art and Critical Cultures 1:1 - University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

'Topophilia', Temple Bar Gallery and Studios :: Dublin, Ireland :: 2018
NCAD Graduate Show, 2019