Johana Trayanova - Organism 3.2

Organism | serie, 2025 • Polaroid-manipuleret mosaic, kunstværkets størrelse 40 cm x 17 cm • Begrænset udgave på 1 | Leveres i en glasramme med metal.

Organism 3.2 er en del af en fotografisk serie, der udforsker begrebet, at vores forældres og bedsteforældres drømme, ideer og tro er arvet:

“There cannot be a completely clean beginning. Just as there cannot be a completely independent end.
Organism is a metaphorical new species that traces everything passed on to us by our ancestors—the traits inherited from them, emotional imprints, unfulfilled dreams, traumas, and even, at times, the paths they have trodden, which we must traverse anew. In doing so, we face a choice: to follow the same route or to carve a new one where they did not dare to venture.
What does it mean to be shaped by the invisible unknown? Even without direct knowledge of our ancestors, their essence reverberates through our features, behaviors, dreams, and inner emotional landscapes. How do memories—even those left unspoken—reside and resonate within our bodies and minds?
In an abstract interplay of diverse plants and flowers, forms and colors, I, as an artist, probe the nature of our identity. It is not an individual construct, wholly pure or unencumbered. Nor is anything that befalls us an entirely new phenomenon, emerging for the first time. All of it has been lived before—in consciousness, in life—having coursed through the dreams and minds of the ones who came before us. It returns to us, inviting us to relive it: their dreams, their fears, their battles. Will we yield to a dream and fulfill it this time, where someone before us lacked the courage? Will we veer onto a path not taken by our… grandmother? Mother?”

Om kunstneren:

Johana Trayanova er visuel kunstner, der arbejder inden for fine art-fotografi. Født i Sofia i 1991, er uddannet i dramaturgi fra National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts “Krastyo Sarafov” i 2014. Trayanova begyndte at fortælle historier gennem fotografering efter at have gennemført en række kurser i konceptuel fotografisk kunst i 2016. I 2024 begyndte hun på et kandidatprogram i fotografi ved National Academy of Arts. Siden 2018 har Johana Trayanova skabt audiovisuelle rum, der omslutter beskueren og provokerer dem gennem de begreber, hun udforsker. Hendes kunstneriske portefølje inkluderer følgende udstillinger og deltagelser: ORGANISM @ Little Bird Place, Sofia 2025; SEE THROUGH @ Charta Gallery, Sofia 2024; Deep Diving : HER @ Bobbina, Sofia, 2024; FRAGILE @ Bulgarian Culture Institute, Budapest, 2023; FRAGILE @ Credo Bonum, Sofia, 2022; A Piece of Earth @ public spaces, Sofia, 2020; DREAMING @ 167 Place, Sofia, 2018.