TOVA worlds
TOVA WORLDS are interdisciplinary artistic environments in which visual art, text, sound, video, poetry and other media come together to form a unified experience. Each world extends beyond the boundaries of an individual artwork, inviting audiences to enter, explore and experience different ways of perceiving and understanding reality.
At the heart of TOVA WORLDS is the idea that artistic forms are interconnected. Images, words, sounds and gestures do not simply illustrate one another; they interact to create a distinct atmosphere, an internal logic and a space for new experiences.
While TOVA NUTS explore and preserve knowledge in concentrated aesthetic forms, TOVA WORLDS expand that knowledge into immersive environments that unfold through space, time and perception. They bring together artistic expression and intellectual inquiry, creating worlds in which ideas can be encountered, experienced and reimagined.
The Eye (Rogovitsa)
What makes an image convincing, and how do we distinguish what is real from what is constructed?
The Eye (Rogovitsa) is a photographic project emerging from TOVA’s research into perception, representation and the mechanisms through which signals acquire meaning. Behind every polished video lies a process of decisions, gestures, rehearsals and unexpected moments. The series turns the camera towards this process, capturing what the final cut conceals: feathers about to fly, a camera operator leaning in, the crew reflected in a dressing-room mirror, TOVA waiting alone on a spiral staircase or painting a canvas the camera will turn blank.
The project is grounded in TOVA (Dr Tatiana Franus)’s research in financial markets and machine learning. Together with Malvina Marchese and Richard Payne, she investigates methods for detecting spoofing — a form of market manipulation in which orders create a misleading impression of supply or demand without the intention of being executed. This research raises a broader question: how do we recognise the difference between a genuine signal and an appearance designed to mislead?
The Eye (Rogovitsa)
Within TOVA WORLDS, The Eye translates this question into an artistic exploration of visibility, staging and perception. Just as a market signal must be interpreted rather than simply observed, an image is shaped by the conditions of its production, the choices behind the camera and the expectations of its viewer. By revealing the making of an image, the series invites us to reconsider the relationship between what is seen, what is concealed and what we believe to be true.
The Eye marks a point of encounter between research and artistic practice: a world in which the mechanisms of seeing become part of what is seen.
TOVA on YouTube is a digital extension of TOVA WORLDS, bringing together music, poetry, lyrics, video and moving-image works within an evolving artistic practice. Through voice, rhythm, text and image, each work opens a different point of entry into TOVA’s artistic worlds.
The channel presents songs, lyric videos, performances and visual works not simply as individual releases, but as interconnected expressions of a wider creative language. Each piece offers a way to encounter TOVA’s work through sound and image, revealing new connections between words, emotions and visual forms.
TOVA LYRICS is an open, evolving archive of this practice — a space where music and poetry extend beyond the page or the screen, and where each work contributes to the larger universe of TOVA.
I WIll Carry you home
“I Will Carry You Home” is a TOVA world exploring love that endures beyond time, distance and separation. Bringing together music, text, painting and video, the project creates an artistic environment in which an inner experience becomes both visible and audible.
At its heart is the connection between two beings separated by different worlds yet bound by an enduring inner force. Love becomes an act of carrying another within oneself — through memory, presence and devotion, even when physical closeness is no longer possible.
Built around an original song and a painting of the same title, the project transforms a personal experience into an interdisciplinary work about connection, belonging and the ways we remain present in one another’s lives.
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FISH IN THE WATER
“Fish in Water” is a TOVA world exploring love as a state of natural belonging. Bringing together music, lyrics, painting and video, the project creates an artistic environment in which connection feels instinctive — not as something acquired, but as an essential part of being.
At its centre is the image of love as an element in which one can breathe, move and remain fully alive, as naturally as a fish in water. Created by TOVA, who developed the music, lyrics, concept and artistic direction, the work extends her interdisciplinary practice into a moving visual form, shaped by AI-assisted animation, atmosphere, inner rhythm and emotional continuity.