Sofia Dimova

Biography

Sofia Dimova (1996) is a multidisciplinary artist, born in Varna. She graduated from Minerva Academy (Groningen, The Netherlands) with a degree in Fine Arts in 2019. In her practice, Sofia combines different materials and techniques that help her to create an interconnection between personal, fundamental and socio-political issues that seek content and message beyond the classical aesthetics. The visual language she uses is blunt and direct and follows its own logic. This rebellion against the trivial artistic appearance is extremely effective among the audience. Since her return to Bulgaria in 2020, Sofia Dimova has had five solo exhibitions and participated in over twenty group exhibitions, including in cities like Munich, Paris, Glasgow, Prague and Pristina.


About

"Everywhere Sofia Dimova demonstrates a specific way of working, as in the exhibition space creates an almost theatrical mise-en-scène. Her exhibitions are also puzzles. They are composed of various elements, painting, physical objects, music, ready-made objects, photography, video that overlay overt or hidden symbolism. The puzzle fits in the process on viewing to take the viewer in a certain direction desired by the author. [...]
Sofia Dimova is clearly demonstrating her characteristic artistic style. Regardless from the choice of means, materials or media, she invariably works with her symbolic alphabet. Images, words, sounds build a world exaggerated and melodramatic in places, but always direct and passionate."
- Vessela Nozharova


Gallery

Sofia Dimova

Before and after the 5th of February, 2023.

Installation

Details

  • Material: self-portrait, dressing gown, carpet, plaster cast of a condom, plaster cast of the artist's foot and underwear, covered in latex
  • Sizes: various

Sofia Dimova

perpetual fall;, 2021.

Site-specific

Details

  • Material: Welded Chain, chains, textile, brick, padlock, MDF, brick casting

Sofia Dimova

The Fundamental Desire for Freedom, 2021.

Installation

Details

  • Material: pig trotters, fake "Rolex", handcuffs, chain
  • Width: 20.00 cm    Height: 100.00 cm    Depth: cm   

  • Property of: Sofia Dimova

Sofia Dimova

Truly all yours, 2022.

Installation

Details

  • Material: Velvet, satin, monochrome sprayed boots, chair
  • Width: 55.00 cm    Height: 120.00 cm    Depth: cm   

  • Property of: Sofia Dimova
  • Description: The deformed body has suffered a catastrophe, a catharsis. The velvet silhouette is an outline of my body. In this committed act, I steal my own "shadow" (the folklore belief of maidens’ shadows being stolen and then embedded in fountains). I condemn my own fate.
    - Sofia Dimova