Of Bulgarian origin, Tanya Angelova has been living and working in Paris for fourteen years. After studying decorative arts at the D. Dobrovitch School in Sliven, she continued her training at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia, where she specialized in textile arts.
Graduating in 1997, she obtained a Master of Arts and has since developed an artistic practice that includes scenographies, installations decorative and cultural events in Bulgaria, France, Spain, and Germany.
Tanya Angelova: between style and techniques
Tanya Angelova makes the transformation of material a poetic gesture. Inspired by textures and surfaces, she explores the possibilities of textile, line, and gesture as means to convey an emotion.
The canvas she sews becomes a sensitive medium: each stitch, each layering anchors a presence, a memory. Her universe unfolds between abstraction and figuration, in a neo-expressionist approach where ambiguity becomes strength.
"In creation, I am inspired by the desire to transform, to confront, and to mix materials and substances. I sew the canvas to reinforce my presence, a gesture of personal emotion."
Memory, trace, and visual language
At the heart of her work lies the notion of trace — intimate memory, visual imprint, emotional fragment. Memories leave marks: faces crossed, places traversed, moments lived. On the canvas, this becomes line, color, material.
Her painting is an inner cartography, a way of archiving the sensitive. This dialogue between matter and memory gives her work a unique depth, where each form invites contemplation, between erasure and revelation.
