Kalina Dimitrova / Krasimir Terziev: Time Twisted Around a Place, Twisted Around Time

Credo Bonum Gallery presents the exhibition by Kalina Dimitrova and Krasimir Terziev “Time Twisted Around a Place, Twisted Around Time”. The title already sets the tone for the exhibition, as an endless spiral of the primary dimensions of human experience twisted into each other.
Kalina Dimitrova and Krasimir Terziev present scenes and images that are painfully familiar at first glance: abandoned habitats; “wild” vegetation; a fragment of a cinema auditorium, an emblematic work of 20th century art history; forest landscapes - pieces of places and time that refer to other places and other times. Again, at first glance, nothing gives us grounds to resort to the crutches of the usual clichés of “authors’ messages,” but the crises of our time, such as the amnesia of recent failures, anachronistic military conflicts and the looming threat of climate change are palpable in this series of works using various media, including photography, video, and objects, searching for the realities that time, places, materialities, and media create.
The exhibition consists entirely of new works, conceived and created in dialogue specifically for the project. In them the authors further develop their work with motifs and materials with which they are already recognizable to the audience. Kalina Dimitrova continues to direct her attention to places that have ceased to be inhabited, taken over by wild vegetation and the law of nature (Equilibrium). Transparent plexiglass continues to be her medium, with all its plasticity and symbolic load (Up and Around; Out of Equilibrium). The same material is the basis of another revision that Terziev makes of iconic works of modernism. After Duchamp and Rodchenko, here we see dedication to Donald Judd (Storm after Judd). Perspective is a question that Krasimir Terziev frequently revisits, including in this exhibition (Front Row Seats; Between Flashback and Deja Vu-IV).
We are at a stage when seemingly everything we have known about the world has ceased to be of any use to us. With this exhibition the authors invite us to forget for a moment what we think we know, the easy and quick conclusions, the shortcuts. None of those will be of any use in the labyrinth of assemblages, objects and projections.

The exhibition is supported by the The National Culture Fund of Bulgaria.