Veneta Karamfilova

To me photography is an exploration of the mind. A kind of fiction, offering a glimpse of a co-existing reality. A way of seeing a world floating between unspoken dreams yet-to-be and the endless nostalgia for the time that has never been, with a surreal motif.
Since photography is born in a split-second, I find it being the perfect medium to show a fraction of a supposed reality. A fraction that does not describe, but merely suggests. A fraction that has no beginning or an end, but is bound to have an afterlife, long and rich as the viewer’s memory.
The two main subjects I explore are women and flowers, as flowers are often associates with women and feminine.
My woman is a silent inhabitant of an alternative place that provides an escape from the passage of time. She is both strong and fragile. The center and only a fragment of something greater; a suggestion for something more.
Flowers are usually associated with women because of the idea of new life; a rebirth after the winter. Yet since they fade quickly, flowers are also linked with death. In my photographs a slice of this birth-to-death shift is suspended in time.

BA in Photography, New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria

2021 The Other Art Fair - Virtual Editions (Selected Artist)
2019 - "Fabric of reality", group show, Inter Expo Center, Sofia, Bulgaria
2019 - "Pilot", PxP Contemporary, online exhibition, group show
2018 - Tokyo International Foto Awards 2017, ICA Gallery, Tokyo
2017 - "Photo Akademica 2017". Official opening of Month of Photography, Sofia
2016 - "Photo Akademica 2016. Review of photography in Bulgaria 2001-2015", group show, National Palace of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria
2015 - group show, “Alfa Art Gallery”, New Brunswick, N.J, USA
2014 – group traveling exhibition, Gallery of Union of Bulgarian Artists “Shipka 6, Sofia, Bulgaria; “Alfa Art Gallery”, New Brunswick, N.J, USA; Embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria in New York, NY, USA
2014 - " Photo of the Year - Bulgaria 2013 ", an exhibition, organized by Canon Bulgaria, National Art Gallery, group show, Sofia, Bulgaria
2012 - "L'essence de la vie" - a collection of photography pieces, "DADA Cultural Bar", group show, Sofia, Bulgaria
2011 - "20 Years New Bulgarian University" - an exhibition of selected works marking the anniversary of the university at the National Theatre "Ivan Vazov", group show, Sofia, Bulgaria
2011 - "Looks"- exhibition, honoring Europe’s Day, part of...