Artworks by Anzhelika Klimina

My name is Anzhelika Klimina. I am a professional artist with a background in theatre and scenography, originally from Russia and now based in Seville, Spain.

My artistic practice explores the mysterious territory of dreams and the fragile boundary between consciousness and the subconscious. We spend a significant part of our lives in this little-explored parallel world, where reality can suddenly transform, fragments of memory appear with remarkable clarity, and other images become blurred, distorted or almost fantastical.

I am fascinated by the way dreams reconstruct our perception of reality. This has shaped my distinctive visual language, where realistic human figures and recognisable forms dissolve into expressive abstract and calligraphic lines. I use this contrast between a sharply focused fragment of memory and the blurred, shifting nature of dreams to create a sense of movement between two realities.

My ongoing artistic project, Lucid Dreams, is inspired by the experience of lucid dreaming and by the possibility of becoming conscious within a dream. Each work explores a different aspect of this experience: memory, identity, transformation, the separation of body and consciousness, and the feeling of awakening into another reality.

Living in Seville has also deeply influenced my artistic vision. The city itself feels like a dream — full of intense colour, movement, rhythm and centuries of cultural memory. Alongside my Lucid Dreams series, I create works inspired by flamenco, Andalusian traditions and the people, gestures and atmosphere of Seville. These paintings allow me to explore the connection between cultural memory, movement and emotion through my own visual language.

My work has been influenced by artists and creators including René Magritte, Robert Wilson, Fabienne Verdier, James Harris and Salavat Gilyazetdinov.

Through my paintings, I invite the viewer to pause between reality and imagination — to recognise a fragment of themselves and perhaps experience the moment of awakening.