Yael Taig

The project “Leshten” by Yael Taig is a part of the resident program of the “Little Bird Place” gallery andconveys the mood, caused by the small details in the village of Leshten. During her stay in the residency, she prints the plants that surround her. Returning to Sofia, she enlarged the images and printed them with screen printing. She places the prints in frames with boxes, and behind the glass she places the plate, with the help of which the images are exposed on the sieve – exposure film. This creates images where plants develop their history. The composition is devoid of color, plot and circumstance, so that the viewer can “sit on the veranda” and feel the Western Rhodopes as a personal experience.

Bulgaria

Sofia

Little Bird Place

Mixed Media

Leshten III

Leshten II

The project “Leshten” by Yael Taig is a part of the resident program of the “Little Bird Place” gallery and conveys the mood, caused by the small details in the village of Leshten. During her stay in the residency she prints the plants that surround her. Returning to Sofia she enlarged the images and printed them with screen printing. The composition is devoid of color, plot and circumstance, so that the viewer can “sit on the veranda” and feel the Western Rhodopes as a personal experience.

Print

Leshten I

Dumisani Karamanski

“This is a picture of what was in front of me… and it was the majestic Pirin and the people who are like strangers. The works are inspired by weather and the change of Pirin mountain with every second. The paintings depict matrices with which I try to show what our relentless invasion looks like in modern times...”, D. Karamanski

Painting

Pirin Invaders II

“This is a story about Pirin mountain... The story about my perspective how I see it. About people how they change it “, D. Karamanski

My Mythology of Pirin

Little Bird Place Gallery in Sofia and the platform for contemporary art and culture 'Art and Culture Today' present an exhibition with works by second group of 6 young Bulgarian artists, participants in 'Little Bird Artist Residency' in the village of Leshten!

In the middle of summer, 12 young Bulgarian artists were selected to create in nature and the local color of the village of Leshten in an authentic old house. 4 groups of 3 people – each one with their own specific artistic approach and worldview, united by the impulse to break away from the urban environment and immerse themselves for two weeks in an atypical environment. The connecting theme was dictated by the focus of Little Bird Place Gallery on nature, ecology and biology.

Participants in the second exhibition are: ALEXANDER LAZARKOV, SLAVA GEORGIEVA, BILLY MATEEVA, DUMISANI KARAMANSKI, HARITA ASUMANI, YAEL TAIG

Curators and consultants in the selection are Radoslav Mehandzhiyski and Teodora Konstantinova from the Art and Culture Today platform.

MADE IN LESHTEN - Vol. 2

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