Stela Csizmazia
MA contemporary photography; philosophies and practices
Central Saint Martins UAL
Graduates: 2025
Specialisms: Installation/Sculpture / Fine Art / Photography
My location: Bratislava, Slovakia
Stela Csizmazia
First Name: Stela
Last Name: Csizmazia
University / College: Central Saint Martins UAL
Course / Program: MA contemporary photography; philosophies and practices
Graduates: 2025
Specialisms: Installation/Sculpture / Fine Art / Photography
My Location: Bratislava, Slovakia
Website: Click To See Website
About
Stela Csizmazia (Morphine) is a Slovak-born, London-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice is shaped by inheritance, fracture, and the quiet, persistent weight of memory. Grounded in nearly a decade of photographic inquiry, her work fluidly traverses boundaries between mediums, expanding into sculpture, installation, moving image, and performance art. These explorations unfold into multi-sensory realms, reaching beyond visual representation into emotional, ancestral, and bodily territories.Stela’s artworks speak through intimate encounters between organic and inorganic materials—steel and fabric, stone and skin—each element resonating with its own history, memory, and emotional charge. The resulting works hold both tenderness and tension, embodying the unresolved intricacies of personal and collective identity. Through deliberate gestures of rupture and repair, she creates spaces in which contradictions coexist and reverberate: comfort alongside pain, silence against scream, purity intertwined with contamination.Her practice is deeply rooted in exploring complexities of identity, hybridity, and remembrance, drawing strength and vulnerability from her multicultural background and the tensions it inherently carries. Employing both analog and advanced digital methods, Stela’s creative process reveals emotional residue, ancestral connections, and domestic rituals through materials that are personal, symbolic, and tactile.
A schism is a split or division between strongly opposed sections or parties, caused by differences in opinion or belief. In Christianity, a schism occurs when a single religious body divides and becomes two separate religious bodies. The project started forming in the summer of 2022 when my partner and I were forcefully separated by her parents because of cultural and religious differences. My partner, as a Muslim woman, was not accepted and allowed to have a romantic relationship with another woman. Forbidden to communicate with each other, I started researching the "gap" between us. The Schism is a long-term project mapping the split between two physical bodies, that caused my own, personal split. The work consists of interdisciplinary works exploring my relationship between god and my estranged partner. Gradually, this work becomes my personal, liberating ritual mapping my religious journey and conversion from Christianity to Islam.
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