Dimitrina Sevova, Divergence, 2025
Under the title Divergence, Dimitrina Sevova shows a non-chronological selection of recent paintings and sculptures. That is the point at which two things split from each other and bifurcate. In the works on display, the artist approaches this process formally and conceptually.
Dimitrina Sevova, Divergence, 2025
Rüebli stone, 2023
Stoneware, engobed and fired, carots
The Moon in Her Hands, 2024
Charcoal, watercolor, pigment, gum arabic, soft pastel, oil pastel, paper paste on canvas, 120 cm × 100 cm
Double portrait of two real, very young girls who are close friends and share a destiny of being refugees and dealing with life as migrants in a still rather masculine world.
Deer, 2023
Porcelain, glazed and fired, epoxy, rubber, porcelain, glazed and fired, approx. 80 cm × 50 cm × 50 cm
Maria I & II, 2019
Oil on canvas, 100 cm × 100 cm each
The portrait is doubled on two canvases. One is in inverted colors and solarized. The other with desaturated colors. This is a portrait of Maria, a small albino girl who became a global media sensation for a short time. With the double portrait, I want to express the double vision and biases at work in society and our minds. On one, Maria is the blonde, cute girl. On the other, Maria is a colored ambiguous presence. Both paintings do without black. Instead, I used Van Dyck brown and other dark umbra hues. In Renaissance paintings, umbra was an embodiment of the shadow. The artists loved using umbra to darken their paintings. The paintings are based on photo images I found on the Internet, which I manipulated.
The work is inspired by the story of a little albino girl, Maria, who was taken away from her adoptive parents by the police in the small town in Greece and placed in foster care. Her adoptive parents were charged with kidnapping her. She became a media sensation for some weeks until the moment the police discovered she was a Bulgarian Roma child voluntarily left by her birth parents with a foster family who loved her and took care of her. She was their little princess. This produced a series of police raids in Roma neighborhoods across Europe to abduct blonde kids who turned out to be albino, accusing their parents of having kidnapped white kids.
My albino Maria is a reference to Luc Tuyman’s albino child.
Divergent Assemblage, 2025
Diverse ceramic, porcelain, stoneware, glazed and fired, grid painting of raw clay on cloth
Duo exhibition Dimitrina Sevova & Christoph Schreiber, Visarte FRISCH
Duo exhibition Dimitrina Sevova & Christoph Schreiber, Visarte FRISCH, opening 09 October 2025. Flyer
09 - 12 October 2025
Kabinett Visarte, Schoffelgasse 10, 8001 Zürich
Opening: Wednesday, 09.10., 18:00h - 22:00h
Finissage: Sunday, 12.10., 14:00h - 16:00h