0 For Black, 1 For White

Nina Kovacheva , Valentin Stefanoff
06 June 2018 - 08 July 2018
Sofia City Gallery Exhibitions

The exhibition is a joint project of Nina Kovacheva and Valentin Stefanoff, following an invitation from the Fotofabrika and produced by the Festival specially for the Sofia City Art Gallery. The event will display thirty large-scale photographic images and five videos. The works are part of several sequences that show the two artists’ individual quests. Most of the photos are exhibited for the first time in Bulgaria. Nina Kovacheva’s cycles “The Hidden Face of Fragility” (2010) and “Five Bible Stories” (2011) lead us through different stages that depict characteristics of man and of traits of human nature while Valentin Stefanoff’s series “Organon” (2011), “Primordial Soup” (2011) and “Plastic Romanticism” (2018) take us into the world of inanimate matter and enable us to peep beyond the large form and to focus our attention on details that he has chosen.

Nina Kovacheva and Valentin Stefanoff graduated from the National Academy of Art in Sofia in 1985. They have been living in Paris since 1995. Their distinguished artistic careers comprise plenty of exhibitions in galleries and museums in Bulgaria, France, Austria, Germany, China, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States and elsewhere. They employ a variety of art media like drawing, painting, and photography, in addition to video, video installations, objects and sound instillations. The two artists are well known for their individual aspirations and performances and for quite a number of joint projects that are intended mostly for museum façade and public space and that they sign NINAVALE.