ABOUT | chromosapiens

Working across painting, installation, performance and audiovisual media,

Sara Christova (b.1994, Sofia, Bulgaria) explores phenomenology, transdimensionality and the art of navigating with no horizon.

Embracing alternative modes of perception and notions of distortion, decay and resonance, Christova’s work merges philosophy, physics and digital culture in a critique of the entropic nature of a global, networked civilisation. Her approach to contemporary life, spirituality and the sciences as entwined ontological narratives, allows her to investigate the liquid, fluctuating nature of these frameworks through intersections ubiquitous to our present moment in time.

Through a poetic diffusion of the boundaries between the material and the digital, the synthetic and the organic, the universal and the subatomic, she strives towards an understanding of the meta-narratives of the human condition. With an emphasis on the disjointed and non-linear experience of time in the digital era, she looks for meaning in an age of compounding crises.

Sara Christova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1994. She moved to the UK in 2013 to complete a BA in Illustration at Cardiff School of Art & Design (2016), and since then her cross-disciplinary works have been exhibited across the UK, Europe and East Asia—notably at Tate Modern Lates (CAP x Montez Press: Sonic Disruption, 2024), National Museum Cardiff (Museum Lates: Space, 2019), and the Bulgarian National Palace of Culture (Millennial: Bulgarian Illustration, 2017).

In 2023 she was awarded a distinction for her Graduate Diploma in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art in London, where she went on to complete her MA in Contemporary Art Practice in 2024. That year her graduate project LOCUS SOLUS won the Sculpture/Installation category of ARTS THREAD's Global Creative Graduate Showcase.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2024 FURIES COLLECTIVE: One Extended Meditation, Copeland Gallery, London, UK

Gathering Mythologies: Waymakers without Memory, Netil House, London, UK

Reverberations, All Is Joy Studios, London, UK

Honeyed Violence, FILET, London, UK

Uneasy in the Frame - Safehouse I, London, UK

RCA2024: Postgraduate Exhibition - Royal College of Art, London, UK

TATE MODERN LATES: Sonic Disruption - Tate Modern, London, UK

OUT OF REACH: The Enigma of Consciousness - Art in the Docks, London, UK

Beyond, and Within the Void - Fitzrovia Gallery, London, UK

CAP Cinema: Towards Levitation - Genesis Cinema, London, UK

Everything Must Go! - Cookhouse Gallery, London, UK