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 fine art 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 and metaphysical 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.

Gabriela Oravova’s artworks have been exhibited in France, in the United Kingdom, in Switzerland, in the USA, in Italy and in Barcelona, Spain as a participating winner artist of the Honorable Mention of the 14th Julia Margaret Cameron Award and the 15th Pollux Award - Professional Section in the field of Fine Art Photography, and she was nominated for the 6th FAPA Fine Art Photography Awards - the Fine Art Nominee in Professional Category. She has gained the semifinalist place for the Artbox Project Exhibition during the Miami Art Basel Week at Eduardo Lira Art Gallery in Miami, USA.

Gabriela Oravova's photographic artworks have been selected by the jury of the Contemporary Art Curator Magazine and received the Artist of the Future Award.