Installation
Working with space has been a very important aspect in my work. I have created work that explores our relationship to space, and the sense of belonging that arises from that relationship. But besides exploring space thematically, I am also interested in seeing how art changes when shown in various contexts. One example is when I saw my film about urban nature getting a different reading when screened in a wild urban field. It was amazing for me and for the audience to witness the communication between the life in the space and the life in the art work.
Love is a Whole Other Creature (2009-2017)
Four Screen Video Installation Presented at MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) February, 2017. Created during PRIM - MAI artistic residence.
The multi-channel video installation Love is a Whole Other Creature, presents facets of a world of love, as 60 individuals from Sofia (Bulgaria), Montreal, Toronto, Hamilton (Canada), and Rijeka (Croatia) tell us what love means to them. Interspersed throughout the interviews are images from my world, which visually embodied love to me. The nuances each participant brings to the picture and the lyrical cinematography portray the multifaceted way we experience what many have described as being the most noble of human emotions and immerses us in a contemplation of humanity.
The four screens are presented in two pairs. The first pair of screens shows a mosaic of people holding their written and drawn definitions of love and a short documentary where people on the streets of Rijeka, Croatia are being asked to write a personal definition of love. The second pair of screens show a video from Bulgaria (left) and a video from Canada(right) in which poetic imagery is edited with longer interviews on the subject of love. These interviews are with people close to me. There is a third component to the exhibition, a large piece of paper where visitors can write and draw their understanding of love.
Cinema Out of the Box - Screening of Green Dream in Le Champ des possibles, one of the wild green spaces featured in the film, 2015
Vulture's Love - Video Installation in a man made rock cave, Lomea Art Symposium, Ruse, Bulgaria, 2015.
From the Outside, In - Study of Ruse #2 - Collaboration with Serena Chalker. Created at the 25th Process Space Art Festival, Ruse, Bulgaria, 2016.
Mapping the familiar and foreign from the perspective of a foreigner and a Bulgarian Ex-Pat. Mixed media: photo collage, string, GPS track, sound scape.
Wild City Mapping in Hochelaga - Installation created in collaboration with Dominique Ferraton during the artist in residence program of Conscience Urbaine, Montreal, 2016.
