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SUBWAY
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The very day I returned to Bulgaria after a short experience in New York, I got shocked with the difference into the daily rhythms. In that very moment of transition, I felt something such as being in a time gap or that the time collapsed.
The decision I took in the video "SubWay", was to juxtapose one busy day in the NY Subway to equivalent day in the painting studio in Sofia. The "rhythmic montage" helped me to recreate the above mentioned sensation of collision. So I cut the videos I have shot in small pieces: those from NY, in ascending order, and those from the painting studio, in descending; with a difference into the time-sequence just 5 frames (0.05 sec). For the presentation of the video, I created a hybrid space, modifying the art-studio into a subway corridor and supplementing it with handmade indications (graphic design: Dilyan Bakalski) replicas of the original ones. The sound coming from the speakers—alarm doors and noise captured from the subway—also played its role, associated to the threatening warning messages.
Synopsis: The video “SUBWAY” suggests a conflict between two processes taken place in parallel time. On one hand, we have the frenetic group reality in the NY subway, saturated by mystic rhythms, panic doors and warning signs, and on the other - the subjective, almost meditative atmosphere in the painting studio.
In the beginning, our attention is captured by the painting process, but soon the increasing intensity of the underground movement takes revenge.
The site-specific installation "SubWay" is a marginal space between a painting studio and a subway station. The visitors of the installations are the passengers in the subway, as well.
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