A/current
Video Installation
Projection
Metal
Linen
Water
Pump
Projection
Metal
Linen
Water
Pump
Water as an element of collecting information, data like minerals, data water, water as an element of connection and transmission, collecting but also leaving behind, eroding, transforming, transferring, transmitting, and emitting.
The two structures are in dialogue with each other and the rest of the work throughout the show. A two-metre-high and two-and-a-half-metre-long metal piece resembling the drying poles found in the courtyards of my childhood garden, identical, brutalist, cube-like buildings common to Sofia’s outskirts lined up like dominoes, each one with a small cement courtyard, patches of grass here and there in a dying out communal space.
In the middle of the “garden” is a drying pole, made of metal two metres high and two metres wide, water dripping off a wet linen bedsheet. Endlessly dripping, A/current is a sculptural installation consisting of metal, which is prone to rust over the passage of time. Its slow, time- based process of ageing illustrates the transference of all things through the passing of time onto a piece of linen passed down from grandmother to mother to daughter. Cultural, familial, generational habits and traumas are reflected through the cyclical flow of the water from the source, through the pipes and down the linen and then back again. Only here the cycle is interrupted; the flaws and nuances are mentioned and referenced in the effect of the textile, as it too picks up on its environmental influences— no longer white but painted from the action and the intent of the water. It is through this process that the rust writes, imprinting a different story on the watery canvas. History never constant and ever changing, as the orange patina slowly envelops the metal, changing the structure through time.
