DARING TO DEFY THE STATUS QUO | Phase Two: Æther Haga

Double Fold Exhibition with 28 Bulgarian / Bulgaria Based Emerging Artists 
Curated by Voin de Voin
24 - 30 July, 2023
Daring to defy the status quo | Phase Two: Æther Haga | Doza Gallery
With the participation of:

Boyana Aleksova, Antonin Bouchy, Mitch Brezounek, Diana Bunkin, Elena Chergilanova, Sofia Dimova, Ivan Dokov, Aleksandar Gabrovski, Denitsa Georgieva, Gergana Ivanova, Andrea Kozhuharova, Yoanna Laskova, Alexander Lazarkov, Vanessa Miteva, Zlatomira Oprova, Alina Papazova, Georgi Pavlov, Gabriel Pendov , Robin Belluard And Anna Naydenova, Todor Rabadzhiyski, Galena Sardemova, Georgi Shishkin, Nikola Tsvetanov, Vmnotsafe, Miroslav Zhivkov, Slava George, Nevelin Ivanov, Gloriya Avgust
While setting our senses on the political condominium, drafts and forceful currents that take us back to the spring of our own existence.

Right at the core principle that we gaze, states that everything that happens to us is in mere relation to our own calling, projection, and perception of the world.

At complex times in need of direction and clear orientation we are dealing with strong societal division, brought to us by propaganda, war, media, and technological manipulations.The blind date experienced as present , lost, unable to orient. The shell of the norms has gotten thick and hard to pierce from outside. The status quo, a definition of the “commons,” defers itself from the power of the collective, regaining an amplified proportion, prompted by ideas and beliefs, we want to unleash and set free from.

Our “political bodies and minds” navigate through inner and outer spaces, constantly resetting the strive for break through, but what are the tools?In this invisible trap, we have become victims of the most dangerous strategy of the evil cooperation behind our governments, forming a fake layer of the protective shield, that overidentifies with gender, racial, sexual and political statuses. This instrumental mechanism is exactly the tactic of division of populations, large groups of people, making societies weaker and finally entirely controlled. One foot inside technocratic communism, we invite the artist to think and exhibit their insights into the personal revolution.

To my surprise, a lot of reflections address the construct of family. Its power dynamic between generation and its specific zeitgeist. The narrative clearly expressed in the notion of the constraint that defines a perfect family constellation and the deep need for understanding its importance.

We would like to think of this exhibition as a family, where all the members inhabit a house and are part of a family tree, and the works are contributed to the arrangement of the house.

The house as a representation of society at large and all its intersections. The fragmented pieces inside the house, coming from different places. The “unconscious,” taken by the stream of the past, subjected by the “emotional interior” of the present. And last, but not least, the neverending “restoration” as a sign for the future reverberation.
The garden created by the Bulgaria-based emerging artists is full of seeds and food for thought that strongly state that the status quo is nothing more than an unnecessary construction of societal norm that has exhausted itself and others along the way and needs to be defied.

Alert - In time of global warming, if the garden is burned, there will be no harvest…