And I resumed the struggle

Artists: Grigor Dyankov, Damyana Velkova, Marina Hristova, Nikola Mihaylov
Curator: Stoyan Petrov

“All my life I've tried to put it from me, saying Vladimir, be reasonable, you haven't yet tried everything. And I resumed the struggle.”
In the beauty of the unfinished sentence lies the purest form of creative truth.

This exhibition is a whisper of return, of memory. The works on display were found within the spaces of the in-between, in the cracks of time. Here, there is no chronology, nor any pretension of a future. Time has stood still, and we dance with the sacred fire of the past.

These works were never intended for the eyes of others. The artists do not seek approval for a new direction; instead, they share the joy of what has already been created. An open look backward, liberated from the burden of our modern-day understandings.

Standing before what is displayed upon the wall, we inevitably ask ourselves: Is this us? Should something you created so long ago be associated with you at all? It is an illusion to believe we can possess our past. The very act of showing already contaminates and alters the meaning of the works.

The point is not in explaining the past, but in the simple testimony that we existed even before today. “Tell him you saw us,” says Vladimir. And he moves on.