Andjana Pachkova: Statement
My art practice is centered around discovering the ephemeral and the spiritual in painting. My work tends to be a meditation on identity taken outside of its original context through a repeated process of contextualization and recontextualization, both willing and forced. In my practice, I re-balance the harmony of being in the questions asked: “Who are we?” “Who Am I?” and “How do I belong, both to culture and country?” It is through the exploration of places, land, both lived in and imagined, that I can glimpse at an answer. The closer I get to the places of personal significance, the more defined and prolonged is the glimpse, sometimes it is enough to whisk the painting from the ephemeral currents of ideas and pin it down to a flat surface. Akin to the Russian and German Romantic painters and writers, I often gaze toward the expanse of the horizon to understand where we are coming from and possibly glimpse as to where we may be going. All throughout the search I am confronted by the three guards of my personal truth - nostalgia, ledsomeness and keir. In the end the search keeps going, hunting after the universal in the context of particular, with dual aids of powerful tools - memory and intuition.
Andjana Pachkova
Andjana Pachkova
In Translation
August 7-23, 2025