spit it out!

SPIT IT OUT ! , exhibition Voci Umane, curated by Marie Gayet & Pascal Mouisset 2022, photo credit Guillame Belveze

performance : Spit it out !

Spit it out ! or Izplui kamucheto ! is a Bulgarian proverb that means to say something that you have hidden and kept to yourself for a very long time. 
I fill my mouth with liquid plaster and try to pronounce the word  Please  with my mouth full of plaster. I repeat it  till the plaster hardens and becomes like a stone that I need  to spit out.
I spit out the plaster while shouting Please.
I fill my mouth again with plaster and repeat the  same action saying Thank you.
I fill my mouth with plaster again and repeat the same action saying Sorry.

Then I made 3  glass objects – from the plaster imprints – Please, Thank you and Sorry. I repeated the performance but this time saying the same words in Bulgarian and putting the glass object in my mouth.

boryana petkova, performance, spit it out, contemporary art
SPIT IT OUT ! in Voci Umane, curated by Marie Gayet & Pascal Mouisset 2022, photo credit Guillame Belveze
boryana petkova, performance
SPIT IT OUT !  Voci Umane, curated by Marie Gayet & Pascal Mouisset 2022, photo credit Guillame Belveze
SPIT IT OUT !  Voci Umane, curated by Marie Gayet & Pascal Mouisset 2022, photo credit Guillame Belveze
boryana petkova, performance, spit it out
SPIT IT OUT ! performance, exhibition Voci Umane, curated by Marie Gayet & Pascal Mouisset 2022, photo credit Guillame Belveze
boryana petkova, art, contemporary art, performance, language
Spit it out! 2021
contemporary art, glass, boryana petkova, performence, language
Spit it out, 3 glass sculptures, 4x5x3,5cm, 2020
sculpture, installation, glass, language, performance, boryana petkova, contemporary art
Spit it out! detail 2021