2021

We always begin our lives in an admirable twilight. Everything that will help us later to survive our dashed hopes gathers around our first steps.

René Char, Liege Lord

“… created especially for this exhibition… form and format unfold depending on the concrete space in the museum and the setting of the underground hall with the emblematic, authentic ancient tomb in the Kvadrat 500 venue of the National Gallery. The artist has produced an absurd remake of that tomb – it has the same measurements; it is a mirrored-image as a setting; it is made of non-durable modern material and it sends out reversed messages – the ancient vault arch of the tomb has metaphorically become the bottom of an unstable, swinging construction.

In our world of today history is being actively reformulated and yet Radostin Sedevchev manages to avoid the time-traps of retelling the story as well as being judgmental about the past. He is creating his own concept for post-memory at the point where art, history, sociology, anthropology and philosophy intersect.

Iara Boubnova

site–specific installation, wood, plasterboard, angle plates, metal screws, variable size