On December 18, the exhibition “Reconstructions of the Forthcoming II” opens at Cube Gallery — Toplocentrala — a new solo show by Krassimir Terziev, which expands his longstanding interest in time as a culturally and politically charged category. The exhibition will run until February 8, 2026.
The project includes sculptures, objects, and a multichannel video installation created specifically for the gallery space and conceived as an inquiry into the processes through which our structured understanding of nature shapes the ways we perceive, use, and transform it.
Terziev examines time not as pure chronology, but as a cultural construct that carries specific political attitudes. Within this framework, the exhibition comments on modern rationalism and its central role in shaping our relationship with nature — from the impulse toward order and control to the transformation of natural processes into resource and material.
The tree is the central figure of the exhibition — materially, symbolically, and conceptually. The trunks brought into the gallery undergo gestures of decomposing, reassembling, and transformation that reveal the tension between the organic and the cultural regimes of structuring. One tree, chopped into firewood and reassembled with slight displacements, visualizes the interruption and reordering of natural growth and form. Another, shaped and polished into a mirror-like surface, turns the organic trunk into a site where the viewer literally sees themselves — a meeting point between nature and representation, between body and image.
The exhibition’s central video component — a five-channel installation — develops Terziev’s interest in situations where images emerge from the interaction between natural forces and technological devices. Cameras attached to branches record movement determined by the dynamics of the environment, creating an ensemble of five interconnected rhythms that weave a shared visual and sonic field.
The series “Mondrian in Timber Harvesting” adds an additional analytical layer. Using actual industrial methods for optimizing wood material, the artist reveals how the cross-section of a tree trunk — shaped by accumulated time — is translated into a geometric grid reminiscent of Mondrian’s aesthetic. This encounter between the trunk (nature) and the grid (Kunst/culture) underscores how modern rationalism reduces the complexity of natural forms to abstract and standardized structures.
“Reconstructions of the Forthcoming II” offers a critical perspective on how the cultural models and political attitudes of modernity have shaped our perception of nature — as a resource, as material, as image. The exhibition unfolds a space of observation where natural elements, artistic gestures, and technological tools converge to pose the question: What kind of future are we constructing upon today’s understanding of nature?
The exhibition is open to visitors from December 19 to February 8, 2026 at Cube Gallery — Toplocentrala. More information about accompanying events will follow.The project was realized with the financial support of the National Culture Fund.
