Kristina Nikolova

Bulgarian born artist based in Florence, Italy.

The founder of the project Atelierseptem which is my constant search of expressive means united through various artistic disciplines. My unique wearable art pieces, textile art, raw painting, sculpture, photography, poetry, art&video installations are linked to each other, as parts of the whole process of creation. They can live and exist separately, they can be contextualized and decontextualized, but they are born in order to communicate a multidimensional mental and emotional exploration of an entire whole.

My art - heARTbeat - the mother tongue of life is not an unconventional interpretation of a single word, it is the core of my activity. It pulsates through the oldest language in its most primary form - the root of all languages - the language of the heart. It's an inexplicable urge for existence. It is a magic, deep understanding without any need of proof. It's about seeing the unseen or hear the voice of silence, it's about the ability to recognize instinctively all that is authentic. It is primitive as our physical nature and beyond the limits of time as our spirit. It is charged with lots of symbols created in a spontaneous, often subconscious way, that’s why its meani...