I Wish It Was Quiet

2 - 20 June 2026

Lilliana Alexandrova

Exhibition
“I Wish It Was Quiet”
Lilliana Alexandrova
2 – 20 June 2026

 

Rakursi Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of paintings by the young artist Liliyana Alexandrova from June 2 to 20, 2026. Her work is characterized by delicacy, attention to detail and interest in themes related to transience, the human body and nature, giving a sense of vulnerability, contemplation and poetry. She works with watercolor, egg tempera and Indian ink.

About the exhibition, the author says:

“I wish it was quiet, so that I can hear the important things, so that I can better understand what the people I love are saying. So that I can better understand myself.

It was as if working on self-portraits gave me a physical chance to express and experience my desire for comfort, to turn inward, to close my eyes to the outside world and noise. They were something like building a temple, a process of building an image point by point, each of which perhaps brings me closer to accepting myself.

We all need more moments of contemplation and quiet listening to ourselves. I wanted to create a few of these in the form of paintings.”

Biography:

She graduated with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Painting from the National Academy of Arts, Sofia. She is currently pursuing her doctoral studies at the Department of Drawing. In 2024, she participated in the National Autumn Exhibitions in Plovdiv with the theme of the edition “Grounding”. The same year, she opened the exhibition “Le geste, le moment”, Heimat Gallery in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France. In 2025, in the national competition “The Next 25”, the “Vidima” Gallery awarded her in the “Painting” category, and in the national exhibition “Drawing and Small Sculpture”, held at the Union of Bulgarian Artists, she received a nomination. In the fall of 2025, she opened a solo exhibition “If only tonight” at the U P.A.R.K. Gallery in Plovdiv. In early 2026, she was awarded in the “Visual Arts” category by the Stoyan Kambarev Foundation.

The exhibition was realized with the support of the Stoyan Kambarev Foundation.