Don’t Weaponise Your Art But Shield It
Don’t Weaponise Your Art But Shield It / Не атакувай с изкуството си, но нека да то бъде щит (2025)
A compact, eloquent archive: roughly three hundred paintbrushes—collected over seven to eight years of studio practice—are driven into a domestic wooden cutting board, converting household detritus into a sculptural ledger. The radial, porcupine-like form simultaneously reads as a single sculptural mass and as an index of discrete gestures: frayed tips, crusted pigment and battered ferrules map the artist’s techniques and decisions across time.
By using a kitchen board rather than a conventional support, the work collapses living and making; the apartment-as-studio becomes an active material and the piece a mediated self-portrait. Conceptually it balances readymade and archive, turning tools of labor into evidence of labor.
For display, raking or backlighting emphasizes texture and chromatic residue; close-up documentation honors the micro-histories embedded in each brush.
Photo and title credit: Svetoslav Todorov - journalist, editor and writer
Collaborating since 2019
Artwork at situation