Artist: Sophia Grancharova
Exhibition title: Pulse
Curated by: Boyana Djikova / in collaboration with the Center for Social Vision
Venues: Posta Space & Swimming Pool, Sofia
Date: October 21 – November 15, 2023
Photography: Mihail Novakov / all images copyright and courtesy by the artist, Posta Space, Center for Social Vision
For the project Pulse Sophia Grancharova creates a collection of practical clothing and accessories designed for the protesting communities. On the one hand, protesting groups are a vehicle of constituent power by directly exercising the guaranteed right to freedom of expression. On the other, they often exist intensely and unitedly within a specific event, only to disperse afterwards. In their active period, the exclusive use of the body’s characteristics is visible and attributed to a specific purpose – its presence on the square, its properties to occupy space, to create a nuisance, to block movement, and to generate noise through chants. The body inhabits Sophia’s work, approached by her with care. The clothes and accessories she creates have both a protective and a declarative function (spelling out slogans and demands), thus facilitating the relationship between body and message. Pulse was first introduced with a fashion show at Swimming Pool and then it was relocated to the streets of Sofia and on the vitrine of Posta Space.
The project Pulse is a collaboration between the Center for Social Vision and Posta Space.
Center for Social Vision was established in 2021 as a spin-off of Swimming Pool, Sofia and is a space and platform for the exchange of experiences, policies and actions coming from the arts and focused on the community. www.centerforsocialvision.org
With the financial support of the National Culture Fund of Bulgaria.
