Boxes

Desislava Morozova Project





INSTALLATION
An installation of 8 suspended boxes, that can be set into motion, soaked with ink, in which the observer can peek in order to experience/ fall into their space.
During observation of the boxes, the viewer tries to read the ‘gypsy letters’ (cramped, hand-written texts in ink on some of the walls of a certain box) which eventually captivates him to stay longer in the set up internal space.

THE GYPSY LETTERS
My ‘gypsy letters’ are excerpts from P. Sterry and Jim Flegg’s “A photographic Guide To Birds of Britain and Europe”. Some of the words are in print letters and only they form new sentences, change their meaning and are key words when read.
A ‘gypsy letter’ – hand-written text on walls, doors, streets, floors, desks, etc. so that it can be read by anyone.
The text in each box describes a different bird, chosen especially for that certain box, e.g. to be in visual accordance with the space features.

THE SPACE
The space is the picture, it is that space that matters.
The space in the boxes is arranged by letting light through an opening, which is created by dislocating the walls of a hollow parallelipiped.
The various dislocations of the walls cause articulation of the pervaded light and reflections.
The initial positions of the boxes can be recovered by the white fringes – hollow, closed parallelepipeds in various sizes.

PACE PERFORMANCE
In order to set the light reflections in a certain box into motion and to follow their light score, the observer has to shift them in a particular way and by a certain trajectory. In this way the viewer moves himself in the hall space. Through the perspective of an outside observer, standing behind a glass wall, the participants in the hall are conducting a pace performance. Everyone of the participants can become an observer out of the hall and to photograph the pace performance.

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