frequencies of trauma / 2022
moving image
Structura Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2022, curator Vasil Vladimirov
Voloshyn Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine, 2023, curators Max Voloshyn and Julia Voloshyn
the film is part of the archive collection of The international coalition of cultural workers in solidarity
with Ukraine (Anti-War Coallition)
Within the context of the curatorial programme Process Anatomy, Krasimira Butseva’s practice demonstrates the artist taking on the role of a social scientist – historian, anthropologist or sociologist. History is told through objects and images and the artist is an active agent in their collection, curation and preservation.
The process of archiving involves active selection that is based on a story that the institution or entity is seeking to tell. In the current exhibition, Krasimira Butseva challenges the role of cultural and political institutions and their active negligence in critically examining the problematic past of the communist regime in the ongoing period of transition. Thus, metaphorically, the images presented are also in transition, incomplete, glitched, and distorted – existing in a liminal space between conflict and resolution, between fragmentation and completeness.
- Vasil Vladimirov
Curator
Curator