The artistic experiment "Bubbles, exhalation" follows the reactions of people immersed in water, documenting the moment of their sudden exhalation of air. The fusion of air and water creates strange fairy tales, a surreal bubbling extravaganza of colorful bubbles where everything is unpredictable. It is here, in this atypical and limited by me space, that the action reaches its climax in seconds. Reactions are unexpected and unpredictable. Some of the participants react stoically with irony and derision, as if frozen in the whirlwind of children's illusions.... Others, exhaling, struggle with the limits of their own consciousness, throwing their fears with relief into the infinity of water, and it is all that we are and that we are not.
The exhaled cloud of air bubbles is the pure version of the alternative of today's life. Bubbles filled with colorful dreams and satisfaction, or with impossible battles and mediocre fatigue. A staged reality in which the human essence has the opportunity to touch for a moment the realization of what it would cost to be free. Although in another world..
Neli Gavrilova
The exhibition "BUBBLES, Exhalation" by Neli Gavrilova will be shown in the Permanent Exhibition "Mexican Art" at the City Art Gallery - Plovdiv, 11 "Artin Gidikov" Street, Old Town, from 10.11.2023 to 29.11.2023.
Opening – 10.11 at 18:00.