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BORYANA PETKOVA, performance
LINK performance 2021
boryana petkova, wura natasha ogunji, performance, drawing, contemporary art
LINK performance realized  with Wura Natasha Ogunji for the exhibition Hyperdrawing, curated by Joana Neves,  Drawing Now Art Fair

I’m connected through glass object with another person. I’m separated through the glass object with another person. The glass object connected our bodies but doesn’t let us go closer to each other. We start to communicate slowly in action. Sometimes our thoughts are synchronised, sometimes they are in opposition. The performance is finish when the glass object is broken. Our bodies and minds are free to decide if we go closer or one go in different direction.

LINK performance realised  for the exhibition Hyperdrawing, curated by Joana Neves,  Drawing Now Art Fair

A piece of glass, is stretched horizontally. Two people shot off camera in a frantic dialogue. Both hands in close-up are trying to draw. Two thoughts in action try to communicate. Two hands, two thoughts sometimes in synchrony, sometimes in arrhythmia, sometimes together, sometimes against, sometimes against their will. In this movement of pendulum, the two people seek to coordinate, to avoid breaking, or so, to provoke. The forces cancel each other out, the forces are tenfold. Resist, submit. Impose, abdicate.

Link (extrait) 2021
Link object by Boryana Petkova
Link, glass performative sculpture, dimensions 100x2200x20mm
video installation, contemporary art, boryana petkova, museum, exhibition
Link dual channel video installation, glass sculpture, exhibition Mutuus, Fine Arts Museum, Mulhouse, France, 2019
credit photo: Sebastien Bozon

glass, performance, boryana petkova
Link up/down, detail
Link, performance, 2021