Krassimir Terziev (1969, Bulgaria)

Sofia, Bulgaria
Art Project Depot - 5 questions - Krassimir Terziev
What are the most essential components of your artistic practice?

I don't put limits on myself. I try to be constantly attuned to the world and my specific position in it. From there on, I know that my specific biographical experience will hold every gesture, project, work in "my thinking style" and the unique process in each project will put its mark.

How do you interact with space when creating a project?

I'm trying to turn it into an active agent, thinking it's never empty and neutral.

What is the role of text in developing images?

I like the concept of image-text (and why not text-image). In any case, I try to make the relationship between the two organic. I don't like it when the text eats and flattens the image, but unfortunately the PR obsession has been destroying the artist's work quite often lately with its interventions. I feel I've done something when the image gives rise to multiple texts, and when I work with text, multiple images.

What reaction do you attempt to provoke in your audience through your work?

Engaged. I don't underestimate the audience, I don't spare them any of the work they have to do to empathize with a work, to enter the conversation I've started, or to be silent with me.

What is the role of the research approach in contemporary art?

I don't think there is any other approach, not just in the modern era, but in every era since the word art began to be used. Another thing is that when we talk about research we can mean so many different things that sometimes we lose the meaning. Alberti is a researcher, like Vermeer, like Kandinsky or Lars Von Trier.

Selected works