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WHAT CONNECTS US
Sofia Arsenal – Museum of Contemporary Art
Anton Stoianov, Barbara Holub, Benjamin Badock, Margret Hoppe, Marta Djourina, Slav Nedev, Vasilena Gankovska, Veronika Tzekova
Curator: Ilina Koralova
Opening on Thursday, 24 April, at 6 p.m.
The exhibition, What Connects Us, is a kind of ‘still frame’, an attempt—without claiming to be comprehensive—to capture contemporary trends in the society-food-art chain.
With the development of human civilisation, food (nutrition) gradually transforms from a natural into a social and cultural phenomenon. To this day, it is a bearer and conduit and exponent of religious, secular, power, political, and economic models, which, in turn, find their visual expression in art. The process is reciprocal: the connections between art and food reflect respective epochs with their cultural constructions, ideologies, visions.
The attention of the artists in the exhibition, What Connects Us, is largely directed towards the ‘symbolic’ potential of food, to its ability to be a starting point for (critical) observation and analysis of social processes and reflection on their history and present, but also to its possibilities to be a source of inspiration for the development of individual artistic concepts and practices.
What would happen if apple trees could make decisions?
What does Modernism have to do with flour milling? In what ways are tea or a lettuce leaf a source of light? What is the connection between food and the deconstruction of language? These are just some of the questions that the invited artists provoke through their works. Other aspects relate to its ‘architecture’ and, more specifically, to the presence of food in the urban environment, to the psychology of eating as a way of life and a status symbol as an element of a given cultural and social identity.
The exhibition presents eight artists, with diverse ideas, concepts and aesthetic approaches, working in different media: painting, photography, video, objects. Food, interpreted in its concrete and abstract anifestations, is what connects them.
The exhibition is financially supported by: Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport, Austria Austrian Cultural Forum Sofia The Singer-Zahariev Foundation Future of Europe Society of Contemporary Art, Leipzig.
Anton Stoianov, Barbara Holub, Benjamin Badock, Margret Hoppe, Marta Djourina, Slav Nedev, Vasilena Gankovska, Veronika Tzekova
Curator: Ilina Koralova
Opening on Thursday, 24 April, at 6 p.m.
The exhibition, What Connects Us, is a kind of ‘still frame’, an attempt—without claiming to be comprehensive—to capture contemporary trends in the society-food-art chain.
With the development of human civilisation, food (nutrition) gradually transforms from a natural into a social and cultural phenomenon. To this day, it is a bearer and conduit and exponent of religious, secular, power, political, and economic models, which, in turn, find their visual expression in art. The process is reciprocal: the connections between art and food reflect respective epochs with their cultural constructions, ideologies, visions.
The attention of the artists in the exhibition, What Connects Us, is largely directed towards the ‘symbolic’ potential of food, to its ability to be a starting point for (critical) observation and analysis of social processes and reflection on their history and present, but also to its possibilities to be a source of inspiration for the development of individual artistic concepts and practices.
What would happen if apple trees could make decisions?
What does Modernism have to do with flour milling? In what ways are tea or a lettuce leaf a source of light? What is the connection between food and the deconstruction of language? These are just some of the questions that the invited artists provoke through their works. Other aspects relate to its ‘architecture’ and, more specifically, to the presence of food in the urban environment, to the psychology of eating as a way of life and a status symbol as an element of a given cultural and social identity.
The exhibition presents eight artists, with diverse ideas, concepts and aesthetic approaches, working in different media: painting, photography, video, objects. Food, interpreted in its concrete and abstract anifestations, is what connects them.
The exhibition is financially supported by: Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport, Austria Austrian Cultural Forum Sofia The Singer-Zahariev Foundation Future of Europe Society of Contemporary Art, Leipzig.