Krassimir Terziev

Let's Dance. Clothes for Collective Life

1996

  • Krassimir Terziev, Let's Dance. Clothes for Collective Life, 1996

    8 white shirts modified, plastic circular support

    Diameter 260 cm, height 210 cm

    Installation view XXL Gallery 1996

  • Krassimir Terziev, Let's Dance. Clothes for Collective Life, 1996, 'Listen To Us - Artistic Intelligence', Plovdiv, 2019

    8 white shirts modified, plastic circular support

    Diameter 260 cm, height 210 cm

    Installation view Listen To Us - Artistic Intelligence, Plovdiv, 2019

Like in many other countries there is also in Bulgaria a tradional folklore dance, in which the dancers intervene and act as one common dance body in a circle. The altered shirts tailored together in a connected circle are a perfect dress for this body and are at the same time reminiscent of a straitjacket used to calm people down while limiting their free movement. As such the communal garment can stand as a metapher for the dystopic reality of the socialist past and communist dictatorship in the country.

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