Ivana Lomova’s artworks are not defined by the “magic realism”. so characteristic of her photographs, that allows us to precisely identify the situation in which the portrayed characters find themselves – and in which we are subject to its emotional charge, but by her ability to bring out the meaning of each particular environment to the maximum. Her artworks are always somewhat localised: to a café, an urban space, to the beach, onto a path, into a room. This time it is the bedroom, a synonym for intimacy, privacy, coyness, traumas and consolation. Joy. Relaxation. Shadows and dawn. The “forbidden territory”, a space where we open up to ourselves – and where we hide from the outer world. At first sight Ivana Lomova is a pragmatic, almost descriptive artist. Her careful observation gently steers us to see an abyss opening up in the well-known and familiar. This unknown which, thanks to Ivana Lomova’s pictures, becomes a part of us, is staggering.