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Yoana Petrova

BA (Hons) Fine Art, Yr3
Yoana Petrova Yoana.Petrova@mail.bcu.ac.uk
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Yr3
2021
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A blue grid on a white background. On top of the grid are 3 angular shapes made. These shapes suggest concrete, steel and mirrored glass. In the bottom left a hand appears to grip the blue grid structure.
The Spaces We Navigate by Yoana Petrova

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.

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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 […]

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Gugan Gill
Gugan Gill
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Atlanta-Jade Jeffers
Atlanta-Jade Jeffers
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Fotini Filippou
Fotini Filippou
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A collage version of a close up of the face from The Birth of Venus by Botticelli. The painting has been over painted with a bright blue and bright pink paint. The figures face is replaced with painted illustrations of birds.
Lucy Lucas
Lucy Lucas
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A colour photograph showing two fabric collages on a white background. The collage on the right shows parts of a mens blazer that have been deconstructed. The fabric is in pieces and layered onto of one and other. A leopard print fabric replaces the body. The words 'Be Strong and Couragous' are written in pink on a white piece of fabric. In the fabric collage on the right the words 'you are perfect' are stitched in pink and written on off-white fabric. A photograph pf three women is printed onto fabric and layered underneath alongside other elements of a deconstructed mens blazer.