Veronika Desova is a Bulgarian and Scottish architect, teacher and conceptual artist currently based between New York and Sofia, Bulgaria. She works with ready-made architectural fragments, industrial design techniques, textiles, photography and performance art to explore the phenomenological relationship between architecture and the body. Her recent work explores durational and motorised sculptures which merge the identity of architectural systems with the somatic and physiological processes of sentient bodies. Through uniting these two entities, she creates an architecture that appears almost alive, yet remains mechanised. Desova investigates familiar architectural fragments and narrates their traditional, static identity through activating them with scent, sound or movement. Systems of architectural failure or structures on the verge of collapse, provide a subject which unfolds themes related to vulnerability, social trauma wrapped in ambiguous architectural language informed by modernist forms as well as the aesthetics of the Scottish Sublime. Her pieces are envisioned as quasi-sentient beings, enacting cyclical existences through performance in space, generating a ritualistic presence. At the heart of Desova’s practice is a tension between empathy, ambiguity and architectural form: an exploration of how structures can be both a mirror of human experience and an independent entity with its own rhythms histories, and narratives. Across media, her work engages with texture, temporality and the ephemeral qualities of material and body, offering spaces for reflection on the fragile, mutable and interconnected nature of the environments we inhabit.