« Design Against Contemporary Art »: An exhibition creates new opportunities for visual experience
According to the curator of the exhibition Desislava Zafirov, the works question the role of the site – whether it exists to be used or to be understood. « They also problematize the position of the author – designer or artist, communicator or critic – and draw attention to how we perceive the visual in the context of the cultural economy of modern times, » she added in the presentation of the exposition.
For Zafirova, this project is not just a study of the boundaries between design and contemporary art, but an act of initiation – of partnership, of shared demand, of unfinished dialogue between two followers.
The curator also says that with « design against contemporary art » Ina Vasileva and Yonko Vasilev do not seek conflict, but look at the fragile balance between pragmatic and conceptual, between aesthetic use and aesthetic autonomy.
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| Therefore, this exhibition may be perceived as a project that seeks to destabilize The familiar, to destroy the boundaries between the disciplines and to create new opportunities for a visual and conceptual experience. |
The strategies of contemporary art have been used to comment on the functionality of the design and vice versa – the formal language of design is used to ask questions characteristic of contemporary art, according to the presentation of the exhibition.
