Emila Sirakova

Emila Sirakova was born in 1984 in Bulgaria and lives in Italy since 1994. She begin to drawing at 5 years old and from this point never stops.
Through painting and performances, Emila faces and deepen the experience of the human body, as a projection of the being, vision of self and her own emotions. All the characters try to have an external look on themselves among so tense and twirled positions that could be turned into draconian emotions: all those moments when, crouched down, we think, overthink, try to forget or dream. In all those moments we just go numb: we loose contact with flash and bones and we try to touch that part of ourselves made of spirit, traces and gestures.
Emila uses several layers of papers and strokes, blending them together as a stream of consciousness or memories. Not always clear, often nostalgic and dim, pale images and maniacally detailed particulars live together. Emila mostly depicts feminine figures, the subconscious, the primordial feminine origin, using them to spread all her dreams and projections. Sometimes pleasant, sometimes provocative or dark.
In her last works, Emila develops the theme of drawing on draws: tattoos. Seen as a tale, a moment, like thoughts busting out from flash, with cons...

She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan, (BA in Fine Art, 2008), and then got a Phd in fashion design at the Politecnico of Milan (2012).

From 2006 Emila exhibited in many public and private spaces, in Italy, France and Switzerland.
In 2009 was finalist on the Premio Barlettani Prize at the San Lorenzo Art Gallery in Milan. In 2011 she exhibited her first solo show - Paper Swan - at Deodato Arte Gallery, curated by Emanuele Beluffi, then in the same year she exhibited in a solo show in Palermo, Sicily. Other personal exhibitions are Mare Caelo Miscere at Belgioioso Castle (Pavia) in 2012, Kaliakra Revisited, at Spazio Emmaus, Milan, curated by Vera Agosti (2013) and Emila Sirakova Solo Exhibition at CRA - Center of Contemporary Art in San Miniato (Pisa), curated by Roberto Milani in 2015. In 2016 she had a Bipersonal Exhibition in Colle Val d'Elsa (Siena) at Sensi Arte Gallery, a Personal Show - Soulscriptions in Como and in 2017 at Tuscania Festival in Peccioli, Pisa.
Emila partecipated at many group exhibitions in the years, like ARTquake - l'arte della solidarietà at Chiostri di San Domenico, Reggio Emilia, curated by Alberto Agazzani in 2012, two Unicredit Bank projects in 2012 - Contemporary Times (Rome, Piramide square, and Milan, MyOwnGallery) and in 2014 Tower Parade (at Gae Aulenti square and Cordusio Square, Milan), Muti Arcani, at Pow Gallery - Torino,cu...