Bulgaria 2024
The installation partially recreates the survivors’ homes in which the meetings and conversations with them unfolded.
Title: The Neighbours
Commissioner: Ministry of Culture
Curator: Vasil Vladimirov
Artists: Krasimira Butseva, Lilia Topouzova, Julian Chehirian
An interactive multimedia installation that brings to light the silenced and faded memories of survivors of political violence during the Communist era in Bulgaria.
The installation partially recreates the survivors’ homes in which the meetings and conversations with them unfolded. Staged within these private spaces are fragments from oral history interviews conducted by the artists, field recordings and videos from two former camp sites—Lovech and Belene.
These ethnographic and historical investigations trace both the lived experience of violence and the deep scars left by arrests and imprisonment. The project presents the consequences of the deliberate silencing of decades of state violence and the absence of memory in contemporary public consciousness. It forms a space in which one can bear witness to those people labelled as foreigners within Bulgaria’s borders.
OPENING TIMES:
Apr 20 – Sept 30 Wed – Mon, 11am – 7pm
Sept 30 – Nov 24 Wed – Mon, 10am – 6pm
CLOSING DAYS: Tue
