Exhibition of Two Authors on the Edge of Time

Credo Bonum Gallery
02-05.2025

The exhibition “Time Twisted Around Place Twisted Around Time” presents a joint project of two artists who share an affinity for working in different media (photography, film and video, objects and painting), while searching for the realities that media, places and materialities create.
In their latest projects, both Kalina Dimitrova and Krasimir Terziev use complex parallax structures that create explosive contradictions in perspectives, maintaining both an extra-orbital distance and an intimate relationship with materials and images imprinted in human consciousness. The optical phenomenon of parallax is a shift or difference in the apparent position of an object observed along two different lines of sight. Parallax also allows the eyes – and hence the brain – to perceive and derive spatial information from occlusions caused by one object obstructing another. In other words, we can extract information from things that are invisible, obstructed or perhaps misperceived, as well as from those that are perceived with clarity and integrity. Parallax allows for the perception of both sameness and difference; it implies divided or parallel viewing positions and the ability to process differences in perspective and perception. In the case of the proposed exhibition, the optical characteristics of parallax are superimposed and complicated by additional abstractions, such as historical parallax, cultural parallax or media-determined parallax. Krasimir Terziev, for example, deals with minimalist objects, part of cultural history (Donald Judd’s iconic boxes), which the author updates with the power of entropy, or deconstructs everyday objects from life (cinema chairs). Kalina Dimitrova harnesses the imagination of the border between the biological and the synthetic. In other words, the authors offer a composition of works that do not illustrate a specific theme and discourse, but resonate with the anxieties and empathy of the contemporary moment, making sense of legacies and layers of the past.

Realised with the financial support of the National Culture Fund of Bulgaria.