Opening: 6. May 2014, 19h Exhibition Duration: 17. May – 14. June 2014
Theexhibition placed in the narrow corridor and the small comfortable room of the Parterre Gallery is trying to create a suggestive, not apparent connection with the observed or experienced fears, worries, doubts and uncertainties of the artist. The works minimize the distance with the viewer using the principle of collective life practices and memory. Thus they provoke the audience to compare them with their own fears, doubts and confusion.
Pravdoliub Ivanov works with concrete everyday events, facts, objects, symbols and processes – fragmenting them and changing their functionality. Rearranging them into a new functional environment – supposedly created by himself but actually existing somewhere out there in the world we live in or in the near and more distant history. These new configurations may seem to be unusual but they are not abstract. They provoke ridiculous non-secret voyeurism. Watching them we really like their visual completeness, but at the same time we can fall into the labyrinth of uncertainty of our own suppressed fears.
