Stanislav Pamukchiev (1957, Bulgaria)

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

Experimentation, awareness and conceptualisation of working with the power of plastic idiomatic expression. The focus of observation and exploration is the human being in the complex collisions and tensions between the corporeal-spiritual, the liminal-boundless.

How do you interact with space when creating a project?

The space with its characteristics is the physical, contextual and spiritual framework that largely defines my artistic intervention. As an example: my entry into the Water Tower - +359 Gallery, with the project "Refuge Tower", 2022. Architecture with its specificity, activates the sense of movement vertically, movement between below and above, the relation matter - spirit, finite - infinite.

What is the role of text in developing images?

Text is usually an aid to open the door to meaning and content. In the recent project "Passage - Trajectories in Time", SBH, 2023, the text surprisingly acquired an aesthetic "acceleration" like a luminous path running on the ground. The function of the text was not explanatory or illustrative and, together with the sound environment, built the overall emotional-psychological, intellectual and spiritual space of the exhibition.

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

The effort is to attack unconscious, deep-psychological contents, to dig through the layers of archetypal deposits, to meet the viewer in a place he does not suspect, does not expect, even denies.

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

Different intentions - different approaches. For some of my major projects I have provoked, observed and analysed the outcome of psychological experiments with different age and social groups. In all my new experiments, I seal my intuition of meaning and truth with philosophical, theological, psychological and cultural studies literature.

Selected works