Conceptual Gallery

Stars tell us of the infinite, of something in ourselves that is starlike. We watch and wish on stars. In loss, we look up and pray to stars, imagining our ancestors as residing in the heavens. They are the stars and constellations in the night sky. They are the legendary elders and immortals who inhabit the past, whose influence is felt within the present and who write tomorrow’s history.

Curated by © Polina Angelova

MAPS TO HEAVEN | 12 STARS Series Curated by Polina Angelova

With Holocaust Survivor Lady Zahava Kohn MBE and second-generation survivor Hephzibah Rudofsky

Polina Angelova is the Author of MAPS TO HEAVEN Highly Conceptual Fine Art Photography Series and the Founder of HIDDEN IDENTITY PROJECTS – a project with a mission of raising awareness of an extraordinary fact kept secret until 1989 – The Saving of almost 48,000 Bulgarian Jews during the Holocaust.
‘MAPS TO HEAVEN’ is a journey both on a physical and divinely scientific level through life’s most significant moments of a Holocaust Survivor.
‘MAPS TO HEAVEN’ explores destiny as a correspondence between the position of the heavenly constellations and the individual path of the human being.
Combining the pursuit of beauty with the scientific observations of the Universe, the series shows the most intimate relationship between Man, Time and the Cosmos.
Captured in the beautiful Hampstead garden of Hephzibah Rudofsky, ‘MAPS TO HEAVEN’ is curated by Polina Angelova and is part of the ’12 STARS’ Visual History Series.

HIDDEN IDENTITY PROJECTS | A SKY OF STARS Exhibition, curated by Polina Angelova

Exhibited at the Bulgarian Embassy, London | 8.10-20.10.2020 © POLINA ANGELOVA

Concept and Creative Direction by Polina Angelova

Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Pearl Paper | 24 K Gold, made in Florence | Manufactured in the UK

Project Director: Polina Angelova

Concept and Creative Direction: Polina Angelova

Producer: Polina Angelova

Design Team: R. Baldass, T. Chen

Photography: U. Quraishi

Videography: S. Atanassov, KAANG Productions

Video Post-Production: Randerick & Mark @ Kaang Productions

Web Development: TEDBG

In loving memory of my beloved Lady Zahava Kohn MBE (1935-2022)

Polina Angelova is the director of all the creative aspects of the Hidden Identity Projects’ entire productions including innovative concepts, photoshoots, conceptual art and design, highly conceptual fine art photography and visual history series. Every piece of the Hidden Identity Projects’ entire production is a work of art and hearts resulting from the project’s entire mission and individual exhibition concept.

Bringing each art piece to life is a highly sophisticated, intense and exceptionally creative curatorial job that requires high expertise, skills and knowledge to justify the visual language of the curator as an editor of ideas.

For Polina, curating means writing a new story, that is so much more than just a reflection on the exhibition concept, but a story of life – hers, yours and every man and woman who helps write it. Being the concept creator, author and creative director of the ‘Maps to Heaven’ highly conceptual fine art photography series, Polina Angelova explores destiny as a correspondence between the position of the heavenly constellations and the individual path of the human being following the life’s path and most significant moments of a Holocaust Survivor.

Selecting, assembling and editing an endless collection of images and combining the pursuit of beauty with the scientific observations of the Universe, Polina Angelova invented innovative ways of visual curating by producing new conceptual messages for the world. For the first time, a curator records the history and the past not just with written words and painted pictures, but by creating an imaginary world and above all making possible a new kind of visual communication through the birth of a new curatorial language.