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DRAW ME A FISH
Bulgaria, 2005

Director: Lora Markova

Synopsis: A story about the imaginative process of painting, drawing and thinking, referring Exupery’s ‘Draw me a sheep’ and inspired by the Zen tale: A fish asked of another fish, "I have always heard about the sea, but what is it? Where is it?" The other fish replied, "You live, move and have your being in the sea. The sea is within you and without you, and you are made of sea, and you will end in sea. The sea surrounds you as your own being."

The meaning rests not only in the area of the language and the structure of the work, but also in the allusive and symbolic approaches to those regions of reality that cannot be precisely defined and formulated but may be expressed due to one’s immemorial capacity for intuitive cognition and experience.

Lora Markova
26.01.1982

May – August 2004 / Torino University, Italy, Literature and Philosophy Department, Socrates / Erasmus Programme, Project in Semiotics of Cinema
October 2000 – April 2005 / New Bulgarian University, Art History, Classical animation, Character and background design, Computer and graphic design, Semiotics, Dramaturgy, Advertising
March 2004 / Admission at Parsons School of Design, New York, Illustration
April 2001 / Admission at Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, Fine Arts /unreleased because of financial inability /
September 1995 - May 2000 / Foreign Language High School “Vassil Karagiozov” Jambol, English

EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
July 05 “Draw Me A Fish” - participation in the competition program Signor Rossi, Cartoon Club- Rimini International Festival of Animation Cinema and Comics 2005
June 05 Selection for the Liberty, Art and Culture Seminar, Chapman University, Orange, California, USA
May 05 International Plenair for Painting “Friendship”, Stara Zagora 2005
Sept 04 Third Award in the National Competition for Young Painters and Literary Men on the Subject The Soul Of A Source and group exhibition in "George Papazov" Art Gallery - Jambol
Oct 03 Group exhibition for the project “The Prague Quadrennial 03 and the Cultural Life of Prague" - Czech Cultural Center – Sofia
Sept 03 One-man exhibition, dedicated to Peter Markov - "George Papazov" Art Gallery - Jambol
Sept 03 Award "Stefan Bachvarov" for young author
July 03 Group exhibition of NBU in the building of the Parliament of Bulgaria - Sofia
March 03 Group exhibition of NBU in Sofia City Gallery
Aug 02 Group exhibition of NBU 'Dionisia 02' - Sozopol
Aug 01 Group exhibition of NBU 'Dionysus Project' - Sozopol
Jan 01 Group exhibition, dedicated to the tenth anniversary of NBU in the building of the Parliament of Bulgaria
Since 2002 Participates in the exhibitions of the Society of Jambol Artists
1996 - 2002 Illustrates the publication of the annual poetry contest "Vassil Karagiozov"

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