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Herbarium Collection

Art Project Depot - Herbarium Collection

The Herbarium collection documents the energy of the creative act, whether it is a fixed momentary impulse or a precisely considered gesture. Herbarization is the act of capturing memories, emotions, words, images that have lost their meaning, images that have gradually become essential, the explosive joy of new ideas, its transformation into calm indifference, or in short, the ceaseless human quest for meaning in all its dimensions. What would the selection of museum specimens of world culture look like if it were the work of artists rather than art historians? In what way would each artist [...]

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No Blood Relations

Art Project Depot - No Blood Relations

In previous years, Boryana Petkova’s artistic practice was focused on performative drawing, presenting the energy of the creative act as a gesture towards understanding the context in which the work takes place. The artist’s hand movements outlined, in pencil, and on various surfaces, her desire to reach and master the physical territories of subjective personal space. Exploring the boundaries - those we inflict on ourselves and those externally imposed on us as part of her artistic philosophy, personifies the natural human urge in search of our hidden essence. Petkova’s latest performances [...]

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# stateofexception

Art Project Depot - # stateofexception

On March 13, 2020, a state of exception was stated in Bulgaria, as in many countries around the world, in connection with the declared pandemic of  Covid 19 virus. The subsequent social isolation stopped not only the normal rhythm of life for every citizen from the affected countries, it rescheduled all over the world under completely new rules of conduct in the public arena unforseen for us all. Unexpectedly, we found ourselves in a situation of an unfamiliar form of government, which, according to Giorgio Agamben's definition, "is no one's land between public law and political fact, and [...]