_Born in
1972 in Sofia, Bulgaria
_Lives and works in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Back
and Forth,
1999
Video / DVD (color, sound), 7'
Courtesy of the artist
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The Matrix 2,
1999
Video (color, sound), 7'
Courtesy of the artist
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Celebrating the Next Twinkling,
1999
Video (color, sound), 2'15''
Courtesy of the artist
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Ilina Koralova
Boryana Dragoeva belongs to that group of Bulgarian authors, born in the
late sixties and during the seventies who, in contrast to their older
colleagues, did not need any special mental readjustment in order to join
the general flow of the modern artistic discourse whose new parameters
were determined by the end of
the Cold War and the “velvet revolutions” in Eastern Europe.
Information (being informed) – the first mark of a free society –
outpaced the economic changes and enabled the young Bulgarian artists
to situate their creative work in a broader context, outside the confines
of “domestic” problems.
These artists “caught” part of the totalitarian regime in Bulgaria,
but in its later stage when slogans had already lost the power of ideology.
In this sense, from time to time the legacy of the past serves them only
as a reason for irony, not for justification. They are concerned with
more or less the same problems as their peers throughout the world. The
images of mass culture they grew up with are no different from those which
occupy and absorb the minds of young people worldwide. They all face the
question of defending their own identity in the space of an increasingly
more unified value system.
Boryana Dragoeva’s work is not alien to these problems. (..)
http://hammer.prohosting.com/~dragoeva
Please also
visit the archive of Basis-Wien at
http://www.basis-wien.at
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