Project

The Fan

2025

Video, 4K, sound, 11:42 min (loop)

The video consists of close-up shots of people staring at a fan. They hardly move, while the fan spins and moves left and right, blowing their hair. The work seems staged, deliberately static. The concentration of consciousness is "scattered" by the fan. The video is slightly hypnotic, the kind of work that drives you crazy because nothing happens, but at the same time something is always changing. It expresses states of anxiety, fear, flirtation, laughter, or helplessness.

The work is installed on a monitor hanging vertically from the ceiling. It sways slightly with the movement of the air. This reinforces the specific feeling of weightlessness, of levitation, of a lack of sense of time, which is very characteristic when standing in front of screens. They are the surface that separates the forms of experience and engulfs us completely in the field of the short and the immediate. The screen is like a sticker that blurs the view and scatters visual noise, aggressive, impersonal, often annoying but always obsessive and at the same time quite dangerous.

Cast: Victoria Gyuleva, Kyril Buhowski, Dimitrina Piperov, Kristina Russeva, Simeon Markov, Ina Dobreva

Cinematographer: Orlin Ruevski
Gaffer: Nikolа Lilovski
Makeup: Krasimira Petrova
Editing: Kalin Serapionov
Sound: Georgi Atanasov

Installation views from Screens and Schemes show in Karpuchina Gallery, Prague curated by Vessela Nozharova and Alexandra Karpuchina

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