Svetlana Gencheva

05/06/2026

Together with the Japanese artist duo , Makoto Tagawa and Shinya Fukasawa ( ), in La Roche-Posay and Poitiers, France, we reached a new milestone in our research-creation journey around the augmented reality kamishibaï (紙芝居) The Story of My Life, based on the work of
Through performances, seminars, workshops, an exhibition, and public discussions, we explored traditional and digital forms of sequential storytelling to create new narrative experiences across cultures.
A heartfelt thank you to MCL La Roche-Posay for making these inspiring encounters possible, and especially to FoReLLIS and the University of Poitiers for hosting our conference and fostering such enriching dialogue with students.

Thank you, dear friends .588 .takahashi.syutyu, for your creativity, dedication, and friendship, and thank you to everyone who continues to support this adventure!!! 🙏🙌🌷 We are one step closer to the production of our animated film currently in development

29/05/2026

Cartographier l’imaginaire : des pays de fiction aux mondes immersifs

Charlotte KRAUSS et Svetlana GENCHEVA /Lab. FoReLLIS Université de Poitiers / 🧜‍♀️🌊
30.05.2026/ 15h00 / Conférence / 45 min

Depuis des siècles, les cartes ne servent pas seulement à représenter le monde réel : elles accompagnent l’invention de mondes fictionnels. Nous explorerons la relation ancienne et féconde entre cartes et imaginaire, des premières utopies jusqu’aux dispositifs immersifs actuels, en passant par les cartes et atlas de pays imaginaires des XXe et XXIe siècles. Les domaines accueillant des cartes sont nombreux : littérature, jeux de société, jeux vidéo, cinéma, séries, bande dessinée …

10/04/2026

Short video about our encounter with the Indigenous Moyapampa sisters in Totora, Bolivia

The art-based workshop, Sun Prints of Interconnection with Nature, was held in Totora, Bolivia, on 21 November 2025. It was organised in collaboration with t...

22/03/2026

🎬 Trailer of our short animation created within the Healthy Path project at Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Dedicated to the prevention of pulmonary embolism, this short animation provides accessible medical knowledge for healthcare professionals

Scenario, drawing & direction: Svetlana Gencheva
Original music: Philippe Marion
Editing and animation: Daniel Ahmakov

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13/03/2026

The art-based workshop Sun Prints of Interconnection with Nature, carried out in Totora, Bolivia, in collaboration with the Moyapampa Indigenous community of the Bartolina Sisa women’s organization, was conceived and conducted by Dr. Svetlana Gencheva and Alice Massone from the EcoLAWgy Research Centre (University of Liège), with facilitation by Eliana Alba and Norma Guillén from AGRUCO (Universidad Mayor de San Simón).

Engaging Moyapampa women, bearers of ancestral agrobiodiversity knowledge, the co-creative process of the workshop combines art, ecological knowledge, and storytelling to articulate relationships between plants, territories, and lived experiences through methodologies rooted in pre-cinematographic sequential art and cyanotype techniques. Funded by the Women4Biodiversity organization, the project forms part of the EcoLAWgy Research Centre’s decolonial, feminist, and art-based approaches to biodiversity governance and environmental justice, contributing through the presentation of the resulting artworks and a scientific poster at the EcoLAWgy side event during the Eleventh Session of the Governing Body (GB-11) of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA), held in Lima, Peru, in 2025

10/03/2026

Join us this Sakura season in France for a visual journey, co-created by Svetlana and the Japanese artist duo Peter & Joseph, where kami-shibai 紙芝居 (paper theatre) meets augmented reality (AR)

🌸 April 23 – May 13, 2026 🌸 MCL La Roche-Posay, France
🌸 22 April 14h30 - 17h Augmented Images Workshop
🌸 12 May 18h30 - 20h30 Digital Eco-poetic Conference
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02/02/2026

J’ai eu le plaisir d’être artiste invitée pour animer un atelier d’illustration poétique porté par ALCA Nouvelle-Aquitaine, dans le cadre du dispositif « La Piscine », au lycée Nelson Mandela à Poitiers.
Un grand merci aux enseignantes pour leur accueil chaleureux et l’organisation de cette belle rencontre, ainsi qu’aux élèves pour les émotions belles et intimes partagées!!!!

31/12/2025

It’s such a pleasure to hold in our hands, together with Prof. Teodora Handjieva-Darlenska, her book on GLP-1 (Glucagon-Like Peptide-1) with my cover infographic illustration ! Inspired by Scandinavian design, the graphic visualization of GLP-1 functionality and the cover design created by Dr. Svetlana Gencheva draw from the aesthetics of Bauhaus. Theorized in 1966 by György Kepes, this perspective portrays the world and biology as a harmonious set of clear and orderly structures—a landscape composed of organized processes, rhythmically arranged through precise shapes and lines. These elements interact and manifest symmetry, proportion, and modularity, establishing themselves as “ornamented structures” or “structured ornamentations.” Thank yo so much, Dolly!! Love ya