Home/Town
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- Home/Town
- 1998
- 27 color photo collages, 1 plastered wall, acrylic paint, overall approx. 250 x 500 cm
“Home / Town” is about reclaiming “my” city. In 1998 I found out that a location in Sofia had different meanings for people of different professions. That which I thought of as the square in front of the National Art Gallery turned out to be the square in front of the National Bank for a businesswoman employed by an investment company. Neither of us was aware of the other’s mapping. Before 1989, all of us thought of it as the square in front of the George Dimitrov Mausoleum, the city’s most symbolically loaded location. I began collaging photographs of my apartment onto old photographs of outdoor locations in the center of Sofia. The interface of the city was free of advertisements, so the photos of my home look like billboards. In these collages, Sofia looks like it did before 1989. Five years later, however, the public space of Sofia had already been invaded by neon corporate logos, huge billboards and the glossy facades of corporate headquarters. The images from my private space were “replaced” in reality by the images of private interests, raping the public space of neo-capitalist Sofia. L.B.