Lora Hristova

Lora Hristova Works About Exhibitions Contact	B. 1987 Sliven, Bulgaria Lives and works in London Lora Hristova is a Central Saint Martin’s graduate whose mixed media practice engages with gendered themes of identity and sexuality. Her earlier endeavor to probe the creation of the self has slowly been replaced with a desire to explore its destruction and degradation. Anxiety hangs like a spectre in her work. Desires are shameful, memories are traumatic, intimacy is fraught and actions are futile. Siphoning off these insecurities leads to questions surrounding their origin, inherent meaning and ultimate consequences. This psychoanalytic approach to her practice leads to an inevitable littering of autobiographical matter but this is distorted with imaginings and influences like old children’s tales, contemporary feminist theory or cheap pornographic imagery. Her schizophrenic choices of medium reflect the duplicity inherent in her work. Occasionally using narrative as a springboard for ideas, text also plays a vital role in the early stages of creation. A culmination of the many visceral elements of the unconscious, dialogue is spilt with contemplative zeal. Riddled with errors, unashamedly delirious, it functions as a blueprint for the array of characters the artist constructs. Molded with overtly sexual bodies or injected with a subtle lunacy these creatures inhabit her sinister world of scrutiny and deception.

B. 1987 Sliven, Bulgaria

Lives and works in London

Lora Hristova is a Central Saint Martin’s graduate whose mixed media practice engages with gendered themes of identity and sexuality. Her earlier endeavor to probe the creation of the self has slowly been replaced with a desire to explore its destruction and degradation. Anxiety hangs like a spectre in her work. Desires are shameful, memories are traumatic, intimacy is fraught and actions are futile. Siphoning off these insecurities leads to questions surrounding their origin, inherent meaning and ultimate consequences.

This psychoanalytic approach to her practice leads to an inevitable littering of autobiographical matter but this is distorted with imaginings and influences like old children’s tales, contemporary feminist theory or cheap pornographic imagery. Her schizophrenic choices of medium reflect the duplicity inherent in her work. Occasionally using narrative as a springboard for ideas, text also plays a vital role in the early stages of creation. A culmination of the many visceral elements of the unconscious, dialogue is spilt with contemplative zeal. Riddled with errors, unashamedly delirious, it functions as a blueprint for the array of characters the artist constructs. Molded with overtly sexual bodies or injected with a subtle lunacy these creatures inhabit her sinister world of scrutiny and deception.