Martina Vacheva's works draw inspiration from both local traditions and global visual culture, blending elements from folklore, pop culture, cartoons, and tabloid aesthetics to create vivid, often humorous, yet critical compositions. Her main interest is to explore themes of identity, collective memory, and the absurdities of modern society.
Vacheva's paintings and ceramic sculptures often depict exaggerated, grotesque figures that reference both historical and contemporary characters. She plays with kitsch aesthetics, using bright colors and distorted forms to reflect on the ways in which images shape our perceptions of culture and history. Her work engages with issues of gender, representation, and the blending of tradition with contemporary visual language.
*1983 Sofia, Bulgarien. Lives and works in Sofia.
Work: The AI Commandments
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*1957 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Lives and works in Sofia.
Work: Alice´s Hole or the swamp of Marx-Leninist Aesthetics
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*1964 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Lives and works in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Work: HALBWAHRHEIT (Half-Truth)
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*1957 in Cherven Bryag, Bulgaria. Lives and works in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Work: Reality Home
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*1996 in Dobrich, Bulgaria. Lives and works in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Work: Let's Dance. Clothes for Collective Life
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