Lost in Time

Nevena Zlatareva

Location + Tova gallery
Period 09.06 – 30.06.2022
Opening 18:30, 09.06.2022

“You can take whatever image you want, accompany it and you will always get something. The important thing is how well things will combine and what suggestion they will achieve. The human brain can make a connection between almost everything – no matter how different. ”
It all started with letters from my parents when they were young and from which I use fragments, such as texts to the photos. It was a love story during a fictional war.
I read them and followed the path of the stories.
It was a long route, more than 4 months in which I traveled, met people, buildings and spaces and reflected on the past and present. I toured villages, outposts, schools, churches and came across different places and got closer and closer to the thought:
“…… Something like the song: One great love and nothing more “- a quote from a 1974 letter.
It was different from anything I’ve seen before!
Motivated to understand what it is like to keep our values and borders, the state ones. Do you remember them?
I created images that make me remember that time in this present space!
I set out on the path of storytelling to try to find my limits and find an answer to my experience.
It smelled of ruin, as if our war with ourselves had just ended, and now we had to start all over again.
I was looking … there in this ruin to find us who are building our society through my own beliefs.
I found … values that I was looking for in modern times, but I didn’t find them, I found objects that showed me the path we are no longer following.