WORKS OUT OF METHEOR ANI VASEVA

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with: Sabina Koen, Valery Georgiev and Leonid Yovchev

The Performance is roduction of Theatre Konstantin Velichkov, Pazardzhik. Premiere – Open Art Stage at Shipka, RCIC, Sofia, June 2017.

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“The Other Eye” is a series of exhibitions by the idea of Maria Vassileva, where non-art historians and non-curators are invited to work with the Sofia City Art Gallery museum collection. The project aims to look beyond traditional interpretations of history and, possibly, “unearth” somewhat forgotten works, and also trace new links connecting the latter.
The Other Eye project is designed to fight precisely the inertia in viewing and interpreting. It includes in the dialogue with museum exhibits people who exercise their imaginations in other cultural fields or who are not burdened with narrow specialized knowledge. We rely on their fresh gaze to offer us surprising discoveries and to build new contexts for familiar works.
Ani Vaseva, Boryana Rossa and Monika Vakarelova juxtapose different views and perceptions about the collection which, albeit conflicting at first sight, find multiple points of intersection. Their gaze moves between the drama of the bleak reality and the timelessness of the reality that-may-have-been, between expectation and action, between the existent and the non-existent; it explores the storage rooms and tries to discover works with a “dual foundation” (as Ani Vaseva puts it). The world of art is made up of many worlds – as, in fact, is life itself. Ani, Boryana and Monika mark a territory of their own over the decades and offer it to us as one of the many possible routes through time and space.
The exhibition features approximately one hundred works by artists from different eras and trends from the late 19th century to the present day, performed in various techniques – painting, graphics, sculpture, photography, video, object. Among the authors are Georgi Danchov, Ivan Mrkvicka, Andrey Nikolov, Tsanko Lavrenov, Pencho Balkanski, Veselin Staikov, Binka Vazova, Stefan Gatsev, Georgi Baev, Lika Yanko, Vassil Simittchiev, Stanislav Pamukchiev, Margarita Pueva, Edmond Demirdjian, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Ivan Moudov, Stefaniia Batoeva and others.

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with: Boyka Velkova and Stefan Spassov

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The installation was presented at Tanzquartier Wien in the frame of SCORES No3: uneasy going and in Sofiaundergound Festival, 2011.

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with: Hristo Petkov, Iva Sveshtarova, Elena Dimitrova, Borche Gjakovski, Petar Genkov

That was the graduating performance of Ani Vaseva, with mentor Ivan Dobchev. Premiere – TL Sfumato, November 2008.

The tragedy is the genre of the inevitable: of destiny. Svidrigaylov speaks about the inevitability of the image: about the violence of its presence that we cannot escape from.
The image crushes us, nails us, kills us. It is the only air we are breathing, the air that suffocates us.
ГThe Gothic visions are too soft for Dostoevsky; he is the forerunner of the inorganic fetishes hard-core that blinds us at the end of the world. In this apocalyptic world, world at the end of the world, world of harrowing intensivity, world of unlimited reversibility, t.e. perversion, the turn, the reverse is impossible.

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with: Margarita Petrova, Milena Stanojevich, Mia Momchilova, Stella Krusteva.

Premiere – AiRspace, Sofia, February 2008.

“Praesentiae explores the way other, extrinsic bodies co-exist in a person’s body. The performance includes video projection that fills the space with even more, ghost-like presences. It is exploration that goes through the body and the image – experience of the body as a container of the presence of other people that emerge on the surface.