Views from Nowhere
2024
Street. “April 20” 11
Can a building inhabit itself? A project about the abandoned houses around the city that Yves-Christian Angelov and Elena Chergilanova liberate from their everyday existence.
Can a building inhabit itself? A project about the abandoned houses around the city that Yves-Christian Angelov and Elena Chergilanova liberate from their everyday existence.
The installation by the artists Elena Chergilanova and Yves-Christian Angelov in the empty space at ul. “April 20, 11 is part of a series of interventions in the urban environment under the title “Views from Nowhere” that draw attention to abandoned buildings and offer interpretations of their presence. There are such abandoned houses all around us and we can all remember at least one in the neighbourhood where we live.
The houses that the artists explore are scattered around Sofia in neighborhoods such as Hadji Dimitar, Krasno Selo, Lozenets, Strelbishte, Zhenski Pazar, Banishora. “A place emptied of meaning, without purpose and inhabitants; a legal dead end existing as an open wound between public and private space”, the artists say about these places.
To accompany the project, they publish a zine that presents their artistic interventions in 24 pages, 9×20 cm and reveals the uninhabited space of non-being – neither for living, nor for playing, nor for recreation. The publication can be purchased at Swimming Pool.
Part of the first edition of Nine Elephants in 2024 with the opening on July 18, 18:00-21:00 at the.“
In collaboration with the Center for Social Vision.
In collaboration with the Centre for Social Vision.
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Presentation of an audio guide that can be listened to individually or in a group during a walk through the city