Aksiniya Peycheva

BulgariaGalleries & Collectives

Biography

Aksiniya Peycheva is a Sofia-based transdisciplinary artist whose research-driven practice brings contemporary art into dialogue with science. Working with specialists including physicists and microbiologists, she explores how physical trauma, biological processes, geography, and systems of knowledge can be translated into visual and spatial forms.

Archive records · BUNA vol.3 / 2025

Algorithm for a Peculiar Coping with Reality, 2024 3D-printed resin objects 26 pieces, 12 x 12 cm each

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Gallery Arosita
Curator / Team
Rositsa Getsova
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The project examines the mechanisms people use to process events and their emotional consequences. The artist adopts an intentionally unnatural method: she 'compresses' her own emotions by applying a data-archiving algorithm. Over one month, she collected biometric heart-rate data with a smartwatch and, with programmer Nikola Stoyanov, applied a Fourier transform. The resulting cubic forms resemble tissue-like structures with peaks and troughs, but do not directly reproduce the heartbeat. Instead, they present a compressed and deliberately convoluted narrative about overthinking, self-preservation, and the ecology of the body and mind.