“At the apogee, we beget values; at twilight, worn and defeated, we abolish them. Fascination of decadence—of the ages when the truths have no further life . . . when they pile up like skeletons in the desiccated, pensive soul, in the boneyard of dreams…”

E.M. Cioran

A found volume of Bulgaria’s archaeological discoveries, titled An der Schwelle der Zivilisation (On the Threshold of Civilisation), breaks off at page thirty-two, the rest of its pages left blank. The title turns provocative: “civilisation” poses as a settled destination, yet the word has always sorted the advanced from the primitive, the included from the rest. The blank pages undo that confidence. A book is among our most trusted instruments of knowledge – bound, printed, authoritative – here falling silent mid-account. The work catches the reverse motion: the archive failing to close, certainty thinning into emptiness, time unsure whether it marks a beginning or a ruin. 

Ameli M. Klein 

Installation views:

Fabricated Realities: Graphics at the Edge of Belief, Curated by Ameli M. Klein, FIG.6, Sofia 2026
HOME 2124, exhibition organised by Dimitar Solakov, ReBonkers, Varna 2024

Found book, Plexiglas, variable size.