BIO


BoryaXYZ is a Bulgarian Interdisciplinary artist working in the fields of crypto art, metaverse architecture and contemporary art jewellery.

Her works of art allow the experiencer to reimagine discarded objects and rethink wearability.  Borya's virtual and IRL environments invite playful exploration via bending the body-bound sensations of time and space.

Her background spans traditional printmaking, architecture, speculative urban design and performance. 

Exhibited and taught in Europe, Asia and virtually in the Metaverse.

Recent exhibitions include NFT Liverpool (2022), PROOF OF PEOPLE London (2022), Enter the Betaverse (2022), NFT Paris (2022) and YouTopia (March 2023).

Currently a Mentor at VerticalCrypto Art Residency.


ARTIST STATEMENT


I’m an intermedia artist who discovers connections between seemingly unrelated modalities and integrates them in wholesome homogenous IRL and ONL environments with unexpected outcomes.

I’m strongly inspired by the dialogue of the visual and the somatic. Contemporary Jewellery Art as a medium which engages the human body inspires me to explore the notions of the wearability of objects. It’s a portal to breaking the boundaries between art that lives in the gallery and art found on the streets in the shape of statement self-expression.

I’m drawn to projects that bridge physical and digital art and transcend their inherent limitations.




SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND AWARDS 


Vanity Fair ---- Autumn Campaign 2018 (The Gold Standard October, Precious Metals November and Precious Metals December) ---- 2018

For reasons that can go from dramaturgical to technical, catalogue by Johana Blanc, presented at Friday Island ---- Luxembourg, 2017

Winning Team of 48h Sofia Film Challenge with EXPERIMENTO (Dicemen productions) ---- 2015

Commercial Centers as a new public space, TheCity Weekly ---- 2014

Office Space Solutions inspired by the employees, TheCity Weekly ---- 2014

Contemporary challenges in erecting office buildings, TheCity Weekly ---- 2014

Façade Engineering, TheCity Weekly ---- 2014  

Winner of EASA Wastelands Open Call for Participation Contest ---- 2012

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