The exhibition “Infinite Stroke” presents works by Kiril Prashkov created between 1978 and 2026, tracing the development of one of the most consistent conceptual languages in Bulgarian contemporary art.
At the centre of the exhibition are two key motifs in the artist’s practice: the stroke and the text. In Prashkov’s work, the stroke is abundant, intricate, and persistently accumulated – the result of a slow, almost meditative process. Most often executed in ink and pen, it unfolds across large-scale formats that absorb layers of visual and textual references, personal mantras, poetry, and music.
A question runs through the works across the decades: what happens to a sign when we look at it long enough? Prashkov finds text everywhere – in musical notation, in the apparent chaos of barbed wire, in intertwined branches, twigs, and fragments of nature. For him, these are alphabets: systems of signs that can be read, transcribed, and inhabited. He does not move past the sign in order to arrive at meaning; instead, he remains within the sign itself – long enough for it to become strange again. “Infinite Stroke” outlines a path in which art is not a privileged space, but a particular way of seeing – slow, persistent, and ethically engaged.
