Preslav Kostov
Afterimage, 2025
£320
A limited edition print by Preslav Kostov, signed and numbered by the artist and exclusive to House of Voltaire.
Edition Size
30
Dimensions
50 x 70 cm
Finishing
Polymer gravure
The price of this edition increases as it sells out
Preslav Kostov, Perfect Strangers, 2024. Courtesy the artist
About The Artwork
Preslav Kostov engages with the instability of the figure in contemporary image culture. Afterimage extends Kostov's investigation of memory and leisure into the medium of lithography through a series of one-of-a-kind works made using a fragmented Xerox transfer process. Translating the logic of his paintings initially into drawing, Kostov employs an aesthetic commonly associated with reproduction to create singular objects. As in his paintings, contradiction and residue remain central. Here, the imperfections and disruptions of transfer become active agents, shaping images that oscillate between immediacy and elusiveness.
About Preslav Kostov
Preslav Kostov (b. 1998) is a London-based painter. Working through accumulation, erasure, and distortion, his paintings hover between observation and invention, where bodies are partially seen, misremembered, or withheld. Recurring motifs, drawn from genre scenes of leisure or intimacy, serve less as narrative content than as frameworks for tension.
Kostov has exhibited at Berntson Bhattacharjee, Baert Gallery, Studio West Gallery, D Contemporary, Guts Gallery, Spurs Gallery and SixtySix. Kostov is represented by Tara Downs Gallery.