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"Home/Town" is a work, which comes from the realization that the city I live in is no longer as much "my city" as it used to be years ago... Due to the new social situation in the country after 1989, the city of Sofia is being stratified according to social status, ways of life, etc. Consequently, different people perceived the city in different ways and the urban orientation is changing - for instance, last spring I discovered that one and the same location in the center of the city (the square in front of the George Dimitrov's Mausoleum, where the mummy of the first Socialist leader of the country was displayed for decades until 1990...) has totally different verbal nominations for people of different professions. For me, an artist, now it is "the square/parking lot in front of the National Gallery of Art". For a businesswoman, who runs a private investment company, the same location is "the square/parking lot in front of the National Bank of BG". Both these nominations are valid in terms of correct city geography. However, years ago this place was for by everybody - "the square in front of the Mausoleum"....
So, based on this observation, I started to "reclaim" visually my "home/town" by collage-ing photographs of the various interiors/rooms of the apartment I live in on photographs of various interiors/locations in the center of the city where I currently live in. My hope is that in this way I can "feel" this city as MY city again.
Matching interiors with exteriors is for me something like a new type of "visual graffiti" for personal use, which is not defacing the city but is an attempt to reclaim my individual place in it...
Ideally, I would love to see images of the interiors of my home installed as large billboards on some key locations of the city but there is neither time nor resources to start such an undertaking....
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