In our hectic daily lives, we take the same route repeatedly and often don’t pay attention to what’s around us until we have to slow down for some reason beyond our control. One of these reasons is often the “traffic jam”, which forces us to perceive with particular attention and duration the urban environment, revealing its unexpected aspects. Gridlock is a project that explores just such an urban space that can only be seen when we are in a traffic jam. The project envisions the retaining wall of the elevated bridge on the Blvd. “Akademik Ivan Evstatiev Geshov” to be installed fragments of painted glass, where the reinforcement network is exposed after the demolition of the concrete. The fragments are intended as “Easter eggs” for those caught in the congestion, but also as a commentary on our hectic daily lives in which we neglect our immediate environment.

Radostin Sedevchev (born in Pernik in 1988) Graduated in mural painting at the National Academy of Fine Arts. Acquired a Doctor of Education degree at the National Academy of Arts (2018), is currently a senior assistant in the specialty “Mural Painting”. Graduated from the educational program for young artists “Close Encounters – Visual Dialogues school4artists” of ICA-Sofia (2017). She specialized in visual arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden (2017) as well as at the University of Glyndŵr in Wales (2011). Member of the Institute of Contemporary Art – Sofia. In 2022 he opened a solo exhibition at +359 Gallery Sofia, in 2021 at the National Gallery in Sofia, in 2019 at the Heerz tooya Gallery in Veliko Tarnovo, in 2018 at the Gallery of the Institute of Contemporary Art – Sofia, and in 2017 at the Vaska Emanuilova Gallery in Sofia.