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ABOUT

MILENA KANCHEVA

VISUAL ARTIST

My artistic practice has always grown alongside my life.
Since childhood, I have been drawn to making, observing, transforming materials and finding ways to give form to things I imagine or feel. Over time, this instinct developed into a visual practice that moves freely between photography, film, analogue processes, physical materials and experimental techniques.
 

The creative process often begins with an emotion, a personal experience or a thought that is difficult to explain directly. I am interested in what exists beneath the surface: identity, memory, vulnerability, inner states, transformation, acceptance and the truths we sometimes hide even from ourselves. Creating allows me to bring these things into visible form. It helps me look at them from a distance, understand them differently and sometimes let part of them go.
 

When other people become part of my work, the process often becomes a form of exchange. Through that collaboration, less visible aspects of a person can emerge, revealing qualities that may be intimate, vulnerable or deeply characteristic of who they are.
 

Photography and film have been central to my practice since 2011, but I have never felt limited to a single medium. I choose and combine techniques according to the idea, often experimenting with materials and processes to discover unexpected results.

The meaning of the work is never meant to remain only mine. I leave space for the viewer to connect with it through their own memories, emotions and associations.
 

For me, art is a source of life and a language for things that are difficult to put into words. I create because the impulse to do so feels natural. Turning something internal into something visible can create a connection between myself, the work and another person.

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