F**K War, F**K Art

Monkey Jean Rouge Bleu

Monkey Christmas

Monkey Boat

Monkey Rocket

(Я)revolution

A performance act for Sofia Art Week 2020, 24.09.2020, Sofia, Bulgaria

Monkey Quarantine

A self-portrait series captured during the COVID-19 lockdown

Monkey's Planet Series 

Planet of the Wastes

The project Planet of the Wastes is a series of performative self-portraits and a typology of waste items that are combined to form a photography installation. It focuses on the pollution, the impact of human activity on the environment and the process of terradeformation. 

The project transfers the viewer to a distant white planet with abandoned landscapes which are covered with garbage and scrap. In this alienated place the author photographs himself wearing a monkey mask. The monkey tries to interact with the viewer with different tools - human waste- found at this place. The monkey-human counterpoint is a key element in the concept. The monkey character is an opposition to the act of transformation of the environment done by humans.

In reality however this planet is not a distant one, it is real and is actually very close to us. This is our planet.

The project was photographed on an illegal landfill situated in Bulgaria in August, 2019.

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Installation 

Disengagement 

A Robert Morris inspired series.

"Chance is accepted and indeterminacy is implied since replacing will result in another configuration. Disengagement with preconceived enduring forms and orders for things is a positive assertion. It is part of the work’s refusal to continue aestheticizing form by dealing with it as a prescribed end."

Robert Morris, 'Anti Form' (1968).

Planets

(selection)

Planets in a Box

Installation presented at the Kosmodrome exhibition in Sofia, Bulgaria, 2018.

Self-Portrait

Performative portrait series

Sehnsucht

(selection) 

Sehnsucht (German pronunciation: [ˈzeːnˌzʊxt]) is a German noun translated as “longing”, “pining”, “yearning”, or “craving, or in a wider sense a type of “intensely missing”. However, Sehnsucht is difficult to translate adequately and describes a deep emotional state.

It is a bizarre and powerful emotion that arises out of nowhere, which the English language does not have a word for.

C. S. Lewis describes it as an “intense longing… the sense of want is acute and even painful, yet the mere wanting is felt to be somehow a delight… even when there is no hope of possible satisfaction.

With this photography project the author explores and documents his personal experiences with Sehnsucht. The series includes images captured in different places in Bulgaria that provoke the descending of that feeling, a strong longing and intense missing for the past and the bitter realization that it will never come back.

Majority of the places are part of abandoned recreation accommodations and facilities at touristic destinations, which the author relates to old childhood memories, when they were not abandoned and forgotten.

They also trigger the flow of surreal emotions and feelings of emptiness in the author which he captures in the series.

The project was captured in 2018 in Bulgaria. 

Bulgarian DNA

(selection)

This work explores cultural and social topics through some wide-spread food items. All being traditional in the past have turned into cheap “fast food” with poor quality nowadays that is marketed everywhere

The photographed food items follow the logic of a real DNA chain. Each food item is a basic element of a DNA molecule called a nucleotide, which always follows a specific code and pattern. So the series are presented as a long double chained strips.

The project aims to visually provoke the viewer with topics such as sentimentality for the past, change of traditions over time, and also the role of cultural “clichés” in our life.  

 Aquatic

Long term project Dalia (selection)

Part of the author's photobook Time. 

This long-term project captures and documents all the haircuts of a little girl called Dalia from the first one in 2012 . The series explores the topic Time and how it is perceived from a personal perspective. The project is ongoing and will be published in a photobook in 2019.  

Edibles

 Mimicria

Hockey Game