Marguerite de Messières and Tsvetomir Naydenov collaborate on large-scale public art projects that engage with communities, histories, and environments. Their work combines conceptual storytelling and structural craftsmanship across media including steel, wood, and enamel. They have completed over ten public commissions, are 2025 Sondheim Art Prize semifinalists, and were featured on the Public Art Archive’s National Anniversary Map. Their installations are shaped by close collaboration with agencies and local partners, encouraging connection, curiosity, and thoughtful interaction.
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Marguerite de Messières
Margot is a multimedia artist with over twenty years of experience in sculpture, painting, drawing, and animation. Her work explores the interplay of movement, narrative, and environmental forces, often blending natural and human elements to evoke themes of transformation and tension. Through stop-motion animation, time-lapse, and projection, she creates immersive works that highlight the beauty and fragility of change, juxtaposing fleeting moments with enduring materials. Margot’s practice also delves into dualities—such as home vs. landscape, and individual vs. community, employing color as an emotional language, both bright and subtle. Margot studied studio art at Wesleyan University, museology and conservation at SACI in Florence, and trained in woodcarving at the National Academy of Art in Sofia.
Tsvetomir Naydenov
Tsetso grew up in Sofia, Bulgaria, surrounded by urban towers and train yards. He began training in woodcarving at the age of ten and has since expanded his craft to include sculpture, musical instruments, architectural installations, puppetry, and ironwork. Specializing in wood and metal, his practice reflects a fascination with mechanical beauty and invention, balancing materials, design, and function. In 2005, he came to the USA as a John A. Kettridge Fund International Artist Fellow and artist-in-residence at the Hyattstown Mill Arts Project. Tsetso has a growing passion for the powerful sense of creativity, dignity and sense of place which a meaningful act of collaborative art can generate, especially in communities around abandoned industrial infrastructure.