Brain Drain and Blood Drops Fusion’
Miryana Todorova
Whiter shades of pale - Minimal tendencies project
‘The received information is not assimilated unless certain energy triggers the circulation of its inner pieces.’
The idea of the project is to explore the level of response to mass media culture and to question the flow of information that transmits energy to the human brain. It observes how publicity has modified the way people observe things without realizing that subconsciously they take them for granted.
The materials used are controversial, from one hand the posters ripped off from the street and from another - the plastic tubes and containers often used in medicine or building constructions. In this case, they are used as metaphor of media overdosing, the ‘brain drain’ phenomenon and the new blood fusion in the human’s nervous and cardiovascular system. For quite a long time I have been experimenting with found paper and the possible mixtures of techniques of using it as a painting medium. I have always admired the variety of colours and textures hidden into it. In fact, the more I tear them the more I remember people and places I have seen or stories and situations I have experienced. In addition to the posters, I have used exactly this type of plastic tubes because I was fascinated by their transparency, ready-made plastic semi-glossy surface and ability to move and curve into various positions. They could be easily transformed into three-dimensional structures but could also remain simple and flat if they are directly glued to the canvas.
This project is an attempt to look at my work from another point of view, more distant and restraint, more with the eyes of an outsider part than that of the one creating it. Even if I often tend to be very personal, straightforward and highly expressive in my work, this time I tried not to follow my inner voice and managed somehow to separate form and essence thus suggesting a more profound indirect critique to the problems of our society. Perhaps, for the first time I enjoyed making a paining that provokes tension in the viewer yet maintaining a certain distance between the work and whoever contemplates on it. I believe, it has a bitter-sweet taste but nevertheless possesses a very intangible inner atmosphere.
