cursed object / materials: textile patches over silicate resin base, covered with golden folio, coloured with acrylic colours / dimensions: 100 / 55 / 26 cm
The idea of this series of objects is to create a kind of strange and bizarre parallel between the Ancient Egyptian art and some "contemporary" icons. Born by the will of somebody to replace the real values of the ideas, which makes the world goes around, the commercial reality usually presents life much more luxurious and wasteful than as it is. Dealing with it and the religious and sacred function of mummies, this series of works is a part of my quest of finding the meaning and function of art in nowadays society.
Under the mummy, in the pedestal on which it is placed, there is a hidden mobile phone jamming device. It acts as a "curse" of the mummy.
This work has been shown at:
June 2013 – "A COLLECTION WITH PSEUDO-ANTIC ART": solo exhibition with objects; gallery "8"; VARNA, BG
September 2012 – CONTEXTILE: Contemporary Textile Art Triennial, (in conjunction with the European Cultural Capitol Guimarães'2012) art-museum CASA DA MEMÕRIA / GUIMARÃES / PORTUGAL
June 2013 / at the solo exhibition with objects "A COLLECTION WITH PSEUDO-ANTIC ART" / gallery "8" / VARNA, BULGARIA
photo: Petar (Simon) Atanasov
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