video: AVCHD TV (1920X1080pixels) MOV PAL colour screening, aspect ratio: 16:9, sound
screening dimensions: variable
duration: 3 minutes and 54 seconds
Besides that, from the very beginning of the video, we are thrown into post-socialistic reality of nowadays Bulgaria; actually it starts optimistically, showing us group of happily playing children. Later, it gets darker, but only to help the author to make a contrast even contradictory parallel between the art and real life, transforming the social message of the video in to a multi meaning metaphor of crossing the bridge between the imagination and reality. This video discusses the role of the artist in the contemporary society. It does not present the artist as somebody, who walks together, or against the mainstream, but rather as somebody, who walks on his own path. On the other hand, the video aims to remind us, that very often we are observers of unexpected, unforeseen and extraordinary phenomenon, but we are so deep in our thoughts about everyday life, that we miss them. We need to develop specific eyes about extraordinariness. The video also can be regarded as a metaphor, presented the "walk through life" as a walk through seven different colours, which symbolical meanings refer to seven stages of the spiritual development. Just in confirmation of the thesis, that the passage of specific substances from one to another level of expression builds the next layer of cultural accumulation. This video even has a light in the end of the tunnel!
June 2013 / in my solo exhibition THE RAINBOW DOESN'T BELONG TO ANYBODY at CONTEMPORARY SPACE gallery / Varna, BULGARIA
The video "SPECTRAL PROMENADE" has been screened at:
November 2014 – GNARL FEST 2014: International Video Art Festival, (catalog), Lincoln Performing Arts Centre, Lincoln, UK
July 2014 – ZOOart: site-specific art festival, (catalog), curator: Michela Giuggia, Cuneo, ITALY
November 2013 – Espacio Enter: International Festival of Creativity, Innovation & Digital Culture (project of ARTECHMEDIA), as a part of the representative selection of Athens Video Art Festival, curator: Eirini Olympiou, Canary Islands, SPAIN
October - November 2013 – EAST+EUROPE: Eastern European Contemporary Art Exhibition in the frames of the 3rd International World Culture Festival 2013: Lasting Legacies of Eastern Europe (世界文化藝術節2013-東歐芳華), curator: Leung Mee-ping, (catalog), HONG KONG / HONG KONG, CHINA
July 2013 – "STREET.LIFE" – an online exhibition, cold bench gallery
July 2013 – Playground AV Festival, as a part of the representative selection of Athens Video Art Festival, curator: Eirini Olympiou, Linz, AUSTRIA
June 2013 – Photometria Photo Festival 2013, as a part of the representative selection of Athens Video Art Festival, curator: Katerina Katsoura, Athens, GREECE
June 2013 – the 9th edition of Athens Video Art Festival, curator: Eirini Olympiou, Athens, GREECE
June 2013 – series of solo exhibitions: THE RAINBOW DOES NOT BELONG TO ANYBODY at CONTEMPORARY SPACE gallery and gallery "8", Varna, BULGARIA
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17 October - 3 November 2013 / in EAST+EUROPE (東+歐) Eastern European Contemporary Art Exhibition in the frames of the 3rd International World Culture Festival 2013: Lasting Legacies of Eastern Europe (世界文化藝術節2013-東歐芳華) (catalog)
curator: Mee Ping Leung
Hong Kong City Art Hall / HONG KONG / HONG KONG, CHINA
