Sevda Semer

Sevda Semer’s work is about text, history, narrative; the unfolding of memory and emotions; and the intimate relationship between art and the viewer in the time they spend together. Born in 1990 in Sofia, she graduated from the National High School of Ancient Languages and Cultures. While her early work is based on dealing with books, later, the artist also started working in the fields of drawing, and printing as well as installations, and performance. Nevertheless, for Sevda Semer, everything in her oeuvre remains within the idea of a book in the broadest sense. After a two year stay in London, the artist now lives and works in Sofia.

Check-In (4) presents paintings and drawings, which reveal how the body remembers, how a self is constructed and how an identity is formed. Semer’s works expose how personal emotions, and subjective perceptions of reality lead to emotional expressions, in which the spectator can build his/ her own individual reality constructions out of the artist’s fragmental compositions.

The exhibition also displays One Perfect Day, an extensive long-term project, in which the artist over the period of one year created a visual diary that transfers her thoughts and feelings that she had during 2017 into an appealing artistic matrix. Every day, she created drawings, where she constantly discovered new styles, and experimented with folding sculptures.