Bozhinov/Ricci is a duo of writers and artists sharing a communal field of interests, aesthetics and a cross-disciplinary approach to their research and practice. Their projects combine written and spoken word, visual work and references to other forms of human knowledge and experience. I Beg You to Hear Me!, a multimedia-compendium based on the lives and works of Russian writers active during the 1920s and 1930s, was exhibited at dalla Rosa Gallery in 2011.

Bozhinov/Ricci are currently working on Tabula Impressa, a project concerning the mysterious semiology found on urban streets. In January 2013 dalla Rosa Gallery presented part of Tabula Impressa at Art Projects, London Art Fair.

KIRIL BOZHINOV

2011 I Beg You to Hear Me! (with Francesca Ricci), dalla Rosa Gallery
2006 Published a collection of short stories ‘Eclipses: Stories of Disappearances and Reappearances’
2001 Wrote, produced and co-directed a play ‘Chichikov and the Big-Nosed Devil’ at the White Bear theatre in London
1994 – 1997 Advisor to the London Film Festival on Balkan and Eastern European cinema
1993 - 1995 Co-founded and run the fanzine ‘Life is Nothing But a Belly Dance’
1992 - 1997 Music journalist for Eastern European magazines: RITAM (Serbia), TROTOAR (Macedonia), HEROINA NOVA (Croatia), and ROCK AND POP (Czech Republic)

FRANCESCA RICCI

Education

1994-98 Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence (Italy) BA (hons) in Stage Design and Art History
1998 Exchange programme Southampton Institute / Accademia di Belle Arti Florence
2003-04 Raindance Film School (London) Director's Foundation Certificate

Exhibitions

2012 Cross Section/01, dalla Rosa Gallery (group show)
2011 I Beg You to Hear Me! (with Kiril Bozhinov), dalla Rosa Gallery, London
2010 20x20 magazine: Collected Visions (group show), Madame Lillie's, London
2010 agency@theAgency, feat.norn, The Pigeon Wing and microPerformance (group show) The Agency Gallery, London
2009 Art/Value/Currency (group show), The Pigeon Wing, London and Eastern District, New York
1999 Design Works, BBC Vision (group show), London
1998 Metamorfosi della tradizione, Centro Culturale Polivalente, Cattolica
1998 Xmix, Diorama Arts Centre (group show), London
1995 Scrittori alla Pergola, Teatro della Pergola (group show), Florence. First Prize for the set design of If this is a man by Primo Levi

Projects

2009 Auris Mediocris, illustration for The Otologyst in Eclipses: sories of disappearances and reappearences by Kiril Bozhinov
2008 Co-founder and editor of 20x20 magazine
2007 My First Fetish (short story), The High Horse Magazine issue 10 
2004-07 Co-founder and editor of Interlude Magazine