May You Live in Interesting Times series, fig. 9, 2024. Mixed media on canvas, 110x140cm
For my latest project May You Live in Interesting Times using the superimposition technique I combined the iconic images
of the Old Masters paintings with self-portraits wearing different masks. The project introduces a reflection on the situation in
​the globalised and toxic context we live in today. Masks take on a social critique role; denounce the hypocrisy of the modern times.

​Dr Natalia Jezova is awards wining, multidisciplinary artist based in London. 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 film, photography and installation. Her art addresses cultural memory, identity and gender issues. Natalia's artworks are multi-layered, containing their own 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.”
​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. In all her projects, Natalia employs metaphorical or symbolic language to address the underlying forces behind the themes explored in her works. She mixes classical and modern aspects; blur the lines between imagination, reality and memory.