Preslav Kostov

Employing the technique of automatism, Kostov’s paintings emerge from a cumulative process of self-questioning. The artist engages with the practice of pareidolia, rendering human forms within nimbus billows to engage with the subconscious and somewhat formulaic patterns of digital media consumption. Untethered from any singular narrative, time period or experience, his ravelled apparitions inhabit a realm absent of worldly possessions or cultural signifies. This veil of ambiguity stimulates interpretation of the human condition in isolation.