YANA MILEV
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
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INTRODUCTION
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
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INTRODUCTION
How complex can a two-dimensional photography be? Yana Mileva, born in 1964, trained at the HfBK in Dresden and currently internationally active as an instructor, appears to have asked herself this question. In her photographs, she pursues space research that is capable of bridging a purist aesthetic between Asia and Europe. A picture like “Teegeheimnis” (Tea Secret) announces, through an equilibrium of color-weighted surfaces, the harmony of the everyday ritual and at the same time reminds us of the concrete experiments in Mondrian ’s stills, that wanted to release art from the weights of the objective.
Yana Mileva’s grids, fences and layered shadows compress themselves into an enigmatic harmony that is a less than fashionable décor. Her pictures are promises of a fulfilment that we eagerly await. Perhaps the beyond will one day make itself evident, like the boundless nature behind the diffuse membrane of the Tuscan greenhouses. The precipitation on the inner surface additionally obscures the vision of the outside. The screens become perfect projection surfaces for light and material traces, for voices and feelings. That is the new romantic in the best sense.
Dr. Boris von Brauchitsch
