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CULTURE

GALLERY OF PORTRAITS – MINIMALISM FOR DOGS, PORTRAITS – PERFORMANCE OF ISKRA
DIMITROVA IN MALA STANICA

Your act is indeed unusual in its initial approach. In this gard to art today.
project the man appears only as a companion, and the The exhibition, including the video, is a research process,
real visitor is the dog. What is the concept of this work? a component which I consider should be immanent for
every work of art.
The first element is the challenge to make an exhibition
for creatures with completely different sensory world I wouldn’t know how to convey the impressions of the
from our visual world whereby I conceived an exhibition dogs (which by the way, seemed quite happy), however
of smell portraits – physical imprints with relevant infor- as a representative of the human race I can be a witness
mation, which the perceptive system of the dog registers of a conceptual and emotional moment. How did the
through the exhibition space and interprets them. I want- visitors react?
ed to point out the quantity of information which the ani-
mals process from the chemical messages. Same as our The reaction is wonderful, there communication with the
case with email and with the posts from social networks, dogs is excellent. The exhibition is prepared for each visi-
dogs have their own world of ‘urino-mail’ and ‘nosebook’ tor separately, with an appointment. So far we had twenty
in order to research, to create and to manipulate. The sec- guests from different races, from the youngest to the old-
ond element is the communication dog/human – as the est ones. They all managed to find and review the por-
dog with the body language and his positioning through traits, some observed them for a while, while some stayed
space communicates information which we are able to longer and analyzed them comprehensively :)
understand or not. The video is a summary of the visitors- Although it resembles more like a playground, in August
dogs: appropriate “translation” for the people-visitors an exhibition was open exclusively for dogs in London as
which on the other hand set other, aesthetic issues in re- well, with massive attendance.

Iskra Dimitrova Minimalism for dogs

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