PHOTOGRAPHY AND TEXT, 2016
C-PRINT ON DIBOND, FRAMED, 100X150CM AND
B&W TEXT, PIGMENT PRINT ON COTTON PAPER, FRAMED, 40X60CM
with Verena Kaspar-Eisert (curator, Kunst Haus Wien), Boris Kostadinov (independent curator), Josef Ostermayer (the former Austrian Federal Minister for Arts and Culture), Georg Pölzl (Chairman and CEO of the Austrian Post), Stella Rollig (former artistic director, Lentos Museum Linz, artistic director Belvedere/21er Haus), Family Schindler (collectors), Claudia Slanar (curator and lecturer), Elfie Sonnenberger (Chamber of Labour – Culture, Upper Austria and collector)
The encounter between different times and spaces, between projections and reality, between history and the now is at play in Borjana Ventzislavova’s large scale photographic series “Study of Causality”. This is also a kind of autobiographical piece. However the artist has avoided pointing the camera towards herself trying instead to understand her past and present through spaces and people. Two moments in time are confronted by the means of photographic collage – the places of the artist’s youth in Sofia and the people (and their own working or living environment) whom she has encountered through her work. These are collectors, curators, representatives of institutions...As in most of Borjana Ventzislavova’s work, we have a multifaceted mirror here. The two spaces – the one of memory and the one of reality are mirrored. In the text accompanying the work there is another collage – the thoughts of the sitter about the artist’s work meet the memories of the artist herself. The work confronts us with an essential question we rarely address – how do artists negotiate a deeply personal practice with the necessities of a professional world and the demand to speak for humanity rather than for themselves? (DD)
WITH PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIAL FROM THE ARCHIVES OF
NELY NEDEVA VOEVA (FOUNDATION DIMITAR VOEV - NOVA GENERACIA), NEDELCHO HAZARBASANOV AND NIKOLA MIHOV
PHOTOGRAPHY AND TEXT, 2016
C-PRINT ON DIBOND, FRAMED, 100X150CM AND
B&W TEXT, PIGMENT PRINT ON COTTON PAPER, FRAMED, 40X60CM
with Verena Kaspar-Eisert (curator, Kunst Haus Wien), Boris Kostadinov (independent curator), Josef Ostermayer (the former Austrian Federal Minister for Arts and Culture), Georg Pölzl (Chairman and CEO of the Austrian Post), Stella Rollig (former artistic director, Lentos Museum Linz, artistic director Belvedere/21er Haus), Family Schindler (collectors), Claudia Slanar (curator and lecturer), Elfie Sonnenberger (Chamber of Labour – Culture, Upper Austria and collector)
The encounter between different times and spaces, between projections and reality, between history and the now is at play in Borjana Ventzislavova’s large scale photographic series “Study of Causality”. This is also a kind of autobiographical piece. However the artist has avoided pointing the camera towards herself trying instead to understand her past and present through spaces and people. Two moments in time are confronted by the means of photographic collage – the places of the artist’s youth in Sofia and the people (and their own working or living environment) whom she has encountered through her work. These are collectors, curators, representatives of institutions...As in most of Borjana Ventzislavova’s work, we have a multifaceted mirror here. The two spaces – the one of memory and the one of reality are mirrored. In the text accompanying the work there is another collage – the thoughts of the sitter about the artist’s work meet the memories of the artist herself. The work confronts us with an essential question we rarely address – how do artists negotiate a deeply personal practice with the necessities of a professional world and the demand to speak for humanity rather than for themselves? (DD)
WITH PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIAL FROM THE ARCHIVES OF
NELY NEDEVA VOEVA (FOUNDATION DIMITAR VOEV - NOVA GENERACIA), NEDELCHO HAZARBASANOV AND NIKOLA MIHOV