Statement / Bio
“Pulling Back the Curtain” is a series of 16 overpainted pages from a homonymous 2017 Met brochure. The publication explored a major restoration project of 16th-18th-century paintings belonging to the museum. In early 2016 Nathalie Angles and Eva Davidova met to talk about her project “Global Mode”, an interdisciplinary collection of works on mythology, cruelty and ecological disaster. Diving in and out of dystopian scenarios, and the possibilities to imagine something else, they ended up talking about “Apocalypse as Lifting of the Veil”. When Eva saw the name on the Met brochure, and its halfway revealed, placid patriarchal imagery, She felt compelled to alter them, to make the women fly away or to connect everything with destruction and semi-mythical animals.
Eva Davidova is a Spanish/Bulgarian multidisciplinary artist based in New York. Her work has been shown at the Bronx Museum, the Everson Museum, Albright Knox Museum, MACBA, CAAC Sevilla; Instituto Cervantes, and Circulo de Bellas Artes among others. She is recipient of the BANCAJA International Award for Digital Art; the M-tel Award for Contemporary Bulgarian Art and a Residency Unlimited NEA award for US based artists. Recent exhibitions include Global Mode. Narcissus and Drowning Animals at the Circulo de Bellas Artes Madrid, Intentions. Transfer and Disappearance II, presented at ZAZ 10 Times Square, CADAF in NYC, the Imagining Post-Capitalism festival at Pro Arts in Oakland, and at the InLight Richmond Festival at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Lazyboy at Shoestring Studio; Collapse of Vision at Equity Gallery in New York, “Birds Birth” at the ASU Emerge Festival and at the PhotoEspaña Festival; “Playground for Drowning Animals” at Light Year 13; and “Transfer and Disappearance” at the Media Center by IFP in New York.
Artist website: www.evadavidova.com