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Originally from Bulgaria, the painter Tanya Angelova studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia, which led to a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, her adopted city. Tanya Angelova inplements mixed media as well as stitching in her pictorial work. Her works, which can be defined as minimalist, are part of numerous international public and private collections. The key notion of Tanya Angelova's plastic research focuses on the trace. For the painter, it represents a memory, like the remains of living moments, places frequented, persons met. Within her work, Tanya Angelova interprets this drawn line as a chromatic element or a plastic fragment. Her works accentuate the inner experience of a past world by embracing a composition wavering from abstract to figurative elements and linking matter to memories. "In creation, I am inspired by the desire to transform, confront and mix fabrics and materials. I sew the canvas to enhance my presence, a gesture of personal emotion." Tanya Angelova questions the linearity excluding the representation of recognizable forms and thus highlights that each entity in the world has its own way of occupying or observing it.