Works from the homonymous exhibition focusing on principles and forces that make the visible temporary things happen and exist as we perceive them. The forces behind however are invisible and eternal and thus "Out of Space - out of Time" as Edgar Allen Poe has put it in his "Dreamland".

Out of Space - out of Time 2022-23)

Space is the primordial condition for the existence of things and of us who experience them. To a human as a subject of this experience the space divides conditionally into inner and outer. The outer space is comparatively clearly defined while the inner is rather more complex. And if distinct boundaries are typical of the former, their lack appears as a distinguishing feature and possibly a condition for the dynamics of the latter. And yet these two worlds open to each other in the moment one says “I see”. 
-- Slav Nedev Sofia, June 2022

Inner / Outer Spaces

Series of watercolors watercolors representing psychological archetypal (in a wider sense) states of the psyche and personal development.

The Ordeals of the Soul (1994)

Why elements? Because there is air in it, there is water, there are earth and fire… There are birth, life and death, springing up from the relationships between the elements. The name was not preliminary given – it arose spontaneously in the work process, as well as many of the elements in the paintings themselves. 

Elements

Paintings (1998-99)

A series that was created intuitively as illustrations of certain psychological states or archetypes that are often reflected in real life.

Pastel Drawings (1993 - 94)

The REMAINS series was created in 1995 and 1996. Almost all elements of the composition are subsumed under certain mathematical rules. The series was inspired by a number of photos made as part of a metal fatigue research, a field in which there are high tensions and deformations, resulting in interesting forms and textures. Later, some images from the trivial round were added, but now subsumed under the main theme.

The REMAINS series consists of two sub series - Soft Pastels and Watercolors, respectively.

Remains (Watercolors) (1995 - 96)

Paintings (1997)

The works in this series were created for the Yogurt Culture challenge (proposed by Boris Novak) to create a work/works of art on the theme "Yogurt Culture". The idea was inspired by a joke made by Louise Pirrotta about yogurt being the only culture in her home area.

* Louise Pirotta's original joke: "I live in an extremely rural secluded area of upstate NY, pretty much cut off from the rest of the world. They say here if you want culture you have to buy yogurt." 

Yogurt Culture (2015 - ongoing)

Photography

Paintings (2001 - 04)

Paintings (1992 - 1993)

What is an object? Here it has the simple meaning of something we can observe. Something we perceive as external to the observer (subject) and which can be seen by him and others. In our (Western) culture "objectively" has acquired the meaning of "commonality" and hence of "real"... because it is assumed that it is not influenced by personal (subjective) feelings or attitudes. However, this is only apparent. In the process of experiencing the object, we put into it our soul, our preexisting contents. Even when we see something new in an object, we actually find something unknown in ourselves. An endless process in which the subject objectifies himself. Projecting their inner world on objects, the subject experiences themselves in the world.

Objects (2018) + Fragment (1985)

Paintings (1995)

Paintings (1994)

A series of 29 paintings exploring purely aesthetic problems of color and form. 
The Water Imprints series was created so to say at one go. I needed to work fast because the paper has its own character and one should make it pretty wet, then slightly dry and somewhere in that gap – while it is neither too wet, nor dry – to fill it with color and shape. There is not room for deep thoughts in this process. What is needed are quick decisions and improvisations. That unleashes the creative impulses and the intuition and – together with certain chance (because one works with water) gives as a result free works without surplus speculations. The sole conception is the unfolding of the inner sense of composition and color.


Water Imprints (1996 - 97)

Paintings (1996)

Remains (1995 - 96)

The Creation series was inspired by the rocks on the summit of Cherni Vrah - the highest place of Vitosha mountain (2299m) that lies near Sofia.  
Taking a rest at the summit I have drawn some sketches of rocks that later were used as base for oil paintings. The series consists of so to say two movements: the first is more realistic; the second has some surrealistic elements. 
To me the shapes of the rocks and their places are a metaphor of the process of Creation of the world. I remember I have imagined then (while drawing on the top of the mountain) how God has modeled and placed this raw solid matter in its perfect shape, on its perfect place.

Creation

A collection of abstract painting that I have made through the years.

Abstract Paintings

A series transcending the existence of today's highly urbanized industrial society and envisages a (post-urban) state when the humans (for some reason) are extinct and only remains of their activity (primarily architecture) and shadow-like silhouettes remind of the busy city life. Hoever, after some time the nature slowly regains space and the life (contrasted to concrete and glass) begins anew.