CV & artist statement

I define my artistic position as a mystical confrontation with reality, interpreting the human and nature in portraits and other compositions. The main theme I explore in my work is separation within ourselves, and consequent separation from the world; our hidden fears, frustrations, and distrust—which I choose to perceive not as punishment but as trinkets hidden across our lives, peeking in and revealing themselves as keys and rewards, forming a field of exploration.

In my work I confront life's challenges with joy, sincerity, and, most importantly, faith that we can cope with anything and overcome any obstacle. My art is a spark of hope and inspiration. I want my work to elicit in the heart of the spectator a flash of joy and a feeling of strength: I can; I will cope.

My art is a message from the future that you and I are creating now. It is a message for all who live in a world that seems unfair or even dangerous. As a civilization, we have made incredible advances: in technology, in prolonging life, in expanding knowledge of ourselves and of the world around us. And how we use all these gifts is up to us. Not everyone will be taken into the future; it is up to you and me to build it.

My paintings carry the light and power of the forward motion around which my whole being is centered. They transmit trust in the world and encourage openness to what is happening in it. They are talismans that give a touch of hope. Each one has a charge that will fill those who touch it.

Eva Lillova wields art as speech.
I define my personality as a voice, which among the global conflagration of the world gives life and that is why I create light, vibrant colors and uplifting works. All of my work is about color, light, texture, and saturation.

I work with three types of media:
- The traditional media is canvas and paint, through which I communicate to the viewer from a very close distance. Paints are for me very tactile, very close, and intimate, and they allow me to create a very open dialogue.
- Video art is a way to create a lot of voices. I dissolve myself into actors, animators, musicians, and artists, turning it all into a polyphonic sound.
- Art installations. In this format, my Spectator (I-Witness) and Author swap places. It is a fixation on the moment which leads me and others out of the automated paths of perception, thanks to defamiliarization and the liberation of things - techniques that were actively used by the Russian avant-gardists.

I envision myself as a mystical confrontation with reality. Reinterpreting humans and nature in the form of portraits and compositions. My work is about connections: artists of the past with the problems of the present. Between the people, I bring together in my projects and the voices whose ideas become a part of me.

If my work were described by another person - a curator or just an experienced viewer - they would say that the core of my artistry is built around boundaries (or edges) and transitions. Between Self and Other, states, ideas, materials, real and virtual, all are elements of the complex dynamic system that makes up our world. Boundaries can be as a limb, as Milton in Paradise Lost, a kind of meridian, or going beyond the self (transgression). Which, depending on the angle of view, can be both monstrous and beautiful. Exploring the world and the self with the utmost concentration of a dancer or an athlete all in a single moment before the decisive leap - the act of creation, the artist becomes a conduit of energy and, time after time, passing through the process of oscillation moves to the transpersonal level of language.