How Do I Open A PDF?

Yoana Petrova

BA (Hons) Art and Design, Yr3
Yoana Petrova Yoana.Petrova@mail.bcu.ac.uk
BA (Hons) Art and Design, Yr3
2021
#Activist
#Historian
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.

How Do I Open A PDF?

How Do I Open A PDF? is a virtual exhibition of works and ideas by graduates of BA (Hons) Art and Design. Covering a broad range of themes and contexts, the works explore what it means to operate as interdisciplinary artists and designers in 2021. There can be little doubt of the impact that Covid-19 has had a on this cohort, and yet, for all of the challenges, the students […]

Peers & Collaborators

Niki Loizidou
Niki Loizidou
PHASED
#Activist #Historian #MA Arts and Project Management
Jessica Overdijk
Jessica Overdijk
How Do I Open A PDF?
#Activist #Dreamer #Storyteller
Image shows a fictional toy store with pink fluffy toy with a blue face. The toys lounge is sticking out. The toy is sitting on a lilic box and the walls are painted pink. A blue fluffy toy can also be seen, as can a small brown bear with a pink stomach.
Josh Powell
Josh Powell
How Do I Open A PDF?
#Activist #Engineer
a photograph of three ceramic pots on a light blue fabric. the ceramics are odd shaped vases and are glazed in green , blue and red.
Sharon Efomi
Sharon Efomi
How Do I Open A PDF?
#Educator #Historian #Storyteller
A digital illustration showing a small boy by his bed. His mum is facing the wall so all we can see is her back. The woman and young boy are both African-Caribbean. The scene shows a boys bedroom, it is dark blue and there is a small desk and chair with a book shelf to its left.