Fine Art nominee

The series of photographs “The Enigma of Seaside: Echoes of Infinity” reflects the crisis of modern identity and individual search for meaning in life and finding the path to a purposeful existence. The series explores the connection of the individual to the transcendent meanings while challenging our imagination to cross the border from the visible into a possible invisible world.

The artwork focuses on the mysteries of human existence, on the surrealistic and enigmatic visions perceived in an ordinary reality reflecting the tension between the material and spiritual world. According to Gabriela Oravova’s words, the black-and-white photography represents for her “a perpetual challenge between the light and the dark, between the past and the eternity that our being aspires so much.”

GABRIELA ORAVOVA is a fineart photographer, a Czech-Slovak born, based in Brussels, Belgium whose artworks have been awarded and exhibited in Europe and in the USA.

Her photographic work is characterized by a poetic meaning often reflecting the literary knowledge related to her Master’s degree in Literature and her depth of interest in the subject of philosophy and spirituality. There is a personal expression yet universal meaning to her artwork.

Oravova’s artworks have been exhibited in Belgium, France, Switzerland, Italy, in the United Kingdom, in the USA and in Spain. She was nominated for the 6th FAPA Awards - the Fine Art Nominee in Professional Category; and has been granted with the honorable mention in People Category by the MonoVisions Photography Awards. She has gained a semi-finalist place for the Artbox Project during the Miami Art Basel Week at Eduardo Lira Art Gallery in Miami, USA. In 2022, she has been selected as the winner of the category "Black and White - Single Photo - Professional Section" of the 18th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers.

She received the “Artist of the Future Award” and “Voices of Tomorrow Art Award” by the jury of the Contemporary Art Curator Magazine.