"Ornaments of Pain" is an exhibition at Topocentrala – Cube Gallery in Sofia presenting drawings, objects, photography and video created by Pravdoliub Ivanov over the past several years. The main visual environment is formed by over 100 drawings, produced from the beginning of the war in Ukraine up to the present.
"Sometimes there are periods in an artist’s life and practice when the emotional impact of an event makes it difficult to maintain distance, and what is created in such a moment may not fully become art. Perhaps this exhibition is something like that, but my desire to bring together works-as-reactions is stronger than my aesthetic judgments and calculations of risk." – Pravdoliub Ivanov
