Yoana’s practice is centred around the spatial configuration of class segregation. Along with that, it investigates the way the urban landscape and the built environment project their visual qualities onto the emotions and behaviour of the city dwellers. By using research, interviews and psychogeographical practice, her work explores the deceptive reality of modern-day urbanity on a local, global, micro and macro scale, offering a different perspective on how civic space can be used.
She works across digital editing, collage, art installation and sculptural photography to represent and reshape modern built environments. In this matter, the main focus is on architectural structures and the materiality of their facades. She aims to replace the principle of form, function and perfection with the idea of repurposing, transformation and play as a tribute to diversity and inclusiveness.
The annual Degree Show is a highly anticipated event amongst staff, students, external partners and friends of the School of Art – it provides a platform for the work that the students have spent so long conceiving and producing. The 2023 Degree Show has been realised through an ongoing testing of ideas in public arenas in which the discourse around art practice takes place. This process of realising practice which engages with audiences has over […]