Boryana Dragoeva and Point of View (POV)

Saturday, 3 May 2025, 18:00-19:00

Join us for a talk with interdisciplinary artist and curator Boryana Dragoeva who will focus on self-esteem, motherhood, body shape, beauty, and difficulties (but also the benefits) of living with a different body. Her work in the exhibition, Madonna of the External Silicone Breast is a visual illustration of these themes. Boryana’s practice is on the cross-section of electronic and biological arts, film, video, and performance and centres around technology, gender, and the living bodies. The talk will explore how her work has been accepted across cultures and how the life of a breast cancer survivor changes depending on legislation, culture and social expectations. 

Boryana Rossa Ph.D. is an interdisciplinary artist and curator who lives and works between Sofia and New York. Her works are on the cross-section of electronic and biological arts, film, video, and performance and centering around technology, gender, and the living bodies.

Professor in the Department of Film and Media Arts, Syracuse, University, NY.  In 2004 together with the artist and filmmaker Oleg Mavromatti, Rossa established UTRAFUTURO–an international group of artists engaged with issues of technology, science, and their social implications. In 2012 Rossa finished her doctorate entitled “Post Cold-War Gender Performances,” Department of Arts, at Rensselaer, Troy, NY. Co-director of Sofia Queer Forum, together with philosopher Stanimir Panayotov.  In 2017 co-established the Bio-Art Research Coalition of Syracuse together with Dr. Hehnly (Syracuse University, NY).

Her works were shown at the Brooklyn Museum, NY; MUMOK, Vienna; Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw; National Gallery of Fine Arts, Sofia; 1st Balkan Biennale, Thessaloniki; Kunstwerke and Akademie der Kunste, Berlin; The 1st Moscow Biennial; Beijing Media Art Biennial, China; GARAGE Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow; Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain and are part of collections such as Kontakt. The Art Collection of Erste Bank-Group, Sofia City Art Gallery, Thessaloniki Museum of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum, NY etc. 

Point of View with Digital Narratives Studio has developed a learning experience around the Empowerment - Art and Feminisms exhibition, currently open to view at Travancore Palace (New Delhi) until 12 May 2025. Starting from 24 April, Point of View's Vaishali Soni and Prarthana Mitra will be offering weekly guided walkthroughs of the exhibition, centered around the curated learning experience designed by Digital Narratives Studio's Dr. Nishant Shah. We’re calling this initiative Humpowerment— an open, ongoing multi-logue where we come together to experience and reflect on feminist art and histories. It’s a space to learn, share, and leave feeling a little more empowered to question patriarchy and imagine new futures through creative, collective action.

About Point of View
Point of View is a feminist non-profit based in Mumbai that works at the intersections of gender and technology, with a mission to make digital spaces safe and equal for all. Digital Narratives Studio based out of the Chinese University of Hong Kong is a collaborative space to research, produce, and amplify the possibilities of hopeful action through narrative change.