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03 April 2026

ORPHANS IN A SPARKLING VOID - Francesca Ricci and Kiril Bozhinov

 


Orphans in a Sparkling Void is a collection of texts and images inspired by the lives and works of writers active in the Soviet Union during the 1920s and 1930s. It is an attempt to ‘translate’ the voices of individual authors or a literary group into a tableau, from the symbolist lyric poetry of Alexander Blok to the short and satirical stories of Mikhail Zoshchenko. It is a homage to an entire generation of writers and poets forced to live and create in a tumultuous historical moment, and here represented almost as ‘comic book heroes’. Episodes from their lives and characters from their works are combined in this graphic essay to give life to a polyphony of colours and words.

Francesca Ricci, Born in Florence, where she studied Set Design at the Academy of Fine Arts. She first lived in London and, since 2019, has been based in Valencia, Spain. A multidisciplinary artist and writer, she has participated in numerous intern
ational exhibitions. Her artistic research engages with other fields of human expression, from literature and poetry to cinematic imagery and music, as well as philosophy and psychology. Her practice spans a variety of media, from drawing to traditional painting, from mixed media to video.

Kiril Bozhinov, Born in Kočani, Macedonia, he lives and works in London. He has published his experimental short stories in independent publications, as well as the short story collection Eclipses: Stories of Disappearances and Reappearances (London, 2006). He wrote and directed the theatre piece Chichikov and the Big-Nosed Devil, staged at the White Bear Theatre in London (2001). He served as an advisor for the London Film Festival on Balkan and Eastern European cinema (1994–97), was co-founder of the fanzine Life is Nothing but a Belly Dance (1993–95), and worked as a music journalist for various Eastern European magazines.