Yvana Samandova

Living and working in Paris – painter, visual artist, video maker - performer and photographer, I am interested in “Open Work", as a parallel to Ezra Pound’s note that each artist is always a Troubadour.

In my approach to visual arts I am combining two different sensibilities. In one hand I am a colorist, filling the void of our perception. On the other hand I explore artistic presentations of philosophical concepts. The dialectics of those two approaches results in never ending process of creation, since, the new technologies, which facilitate "versioning", collaboration and "forking" fit perfectly the concept of Umberto Eco's "open work".

To be more specific - art is communication that “happens” more intensively in collaboration, where the “inbetweener” space is established by two or more artists as a declination of rigged by conflits "Friendship Studies".

My recent work is based on research considering everything that imply authorship, fragmented or composed, thinking as tinkering, "bricolage" or glitch (as a third author) – the late revealing the unintentional functioning of the brain and the human memory as well as bugged software algorithms and hardware.

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Ph. D in Art & Information & Communication in University of Savoie Mont Blanc, Grenoble Chambery.

Master of Fine Arts, (specialized in exhibitions, networks, spaces) - University of Sorbonne, Paris.

Master of Fine Arts, ( specialized in image and photography) - University of Sorbonne, Paris.

Bachelor of Visual Arts - University of Sorbonne, Paris.

2022, After Yves Klein, 20 video installation on the facade of the building of Ep7, Paris
2021 Wanderlust, The face of the Other, film installation, Biennale of Young Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, Macedonia
2021 30 Blows of Yvana’s Organizo, video installation, Bari Bibart Biennale.
2021 Midnight, stars and you, video installation, Homeostasis Lab, Madrid Spain
2021 Poeticism Djila Theatrette Ivanhoe Librart & Cultural Hub in Melbourne
2021 Women Art Contemporary International VisuaL Art Exhibition, Bari Italy
2021 Poeticism Film Festival, produced by Pasquale Paladino, Matt Helme, Italy, USA and Greece
2021 Inert Demon, photo series Surrealisme, publication OPENEYE french photography journal, N•19
2020 ARTificial Intelligence at the Jönköpings läns museum, Jönköping, Sweden
2020 Fragments of Life short movie film festival, Agitate 21, Vienne
2020 Corona! Shutdown? Corona Spectators, NewMediaArtProjectNetwork, Cologne
2020 Pixel Fest, Projection of my video “After Klein” on the facade of Yeltsin Center, Yekaterinburg, Russia. 2020 Art Web Gallery Centro d'Arte Mediale e Contemporanea Presenta la Mostra di Computer & Art "Aesthetics of Hybrid Autorship" Solo Show, Rome, Italy
2020 The Wrong Biennale : Epice...