Dr Natalia Jezova is an award wining, multidisciplinary artist. She achieved her Professional Doctorate in Fine Art at the University of East London in 2021.
Natalia communicates through a wide variety of media, including photography, film and installation. Her art, which has been exhibited internationally, addresses cultural memory, identity and gender issues.
During her studies at the University of East London she had been under the supervision of avant-garde filmmaker Professor John Smith. He encouraged Natalia to work with a 16mm camera and to experiment with actuality and abstraction, and he has had a big influence on her formation as a filmmaker.
Natalia's short films fascinated by the immersive power of narrative scenarios that blur the lines between imagination, reality and memory. She subverts the perceived boundaries between documentary, fiction, representation and abstraction. Often rooted in everyday life, her meticulously crafted films playfully explore the multifaceted language of cinema.
Natalia's work is never quite what first appears to be. Her images depict meticulously controlled compositions characterised by a classical aesthetic, tinged with poetic undertones of timeless desire and romantic.
Natalia mixes classical and modern aspects and her artworks are multi-layered, containing their own little secrets that viewers are invited to discover. As Natalia says: “What could be more enchanting than a mystery? I suppose, only the love for the mystery and the quest which one embarks on in trying to solve it.”