The exhibition Simultaneity features painted works on boards and canvases, as well as digital graphics printed on etching cardboard.
A large portion of the paintings are structured as rows in a frieze composition, with each row populated by different images, beings, and narratives. Some of these are entirely separate from one another, existing in parallel timelines without interaction, while others penetrate the upper rows, as if traveling through time, thereby connecting everything into a unified whole.
However, these paintings do not simply depict “parallel worlds” that exist simultaneously. The “parallelness” of human existence is a clear reality in today’s world— it is, in fact, the very History of histories. Lilyana Dvoryanova’s paintings attempt to peer beyond this natural state of the human world. The “simultaneity” within them is not a “comic book parallelism.”
