RESEARCH

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'The art work opens up in its own way the Being of beings. This opening up, i.e., this deconcealing, i.e., the truth of beings, happens in the work. In the art work, the truth of what is has set itself to work. Art is truth setting itself to work.' - Martin Heidegger

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I studied history, art history, arts and culture in Sofia (BG), Rome (IT), Copenhagen (DK)  and Leiden (NL), and worked on different projects in the fields of visual arts and art education. My MA from Leiden University (NL) led me to explore the importance of contemporary art practice for the socio-political processes in present-day western society. My research investigates arts as a space of transformation, and addresses topics, such as embodiment, constitution of subjectivity, identity and agency. 

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During my studies I have been engaged with academic discourses that address urgent issues of the current society, such as globalisation and intercultural relations; bioethics and technological development, and the consequences for culture and society. 

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My MA thesis from Leiden University offers a perspective on contemporary visual arts as a space of transformation, which is also my current academic research. It offers an investigation of contemporary art through the viewpoint of Plato’s notion of χώρα (chôra), which opens up a different perspective towards art and helps to better understand its role in society in the context of our technologically invested life. By proposing a different entry into the western world’s binary logic of rationality, and by putting forward an ontological vision, art as χώρα enables the space for a transformation—an experience and consequently a consideration of novel modes of existence of the political body of present-day western society.

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