“Cosmic Noise” is a multi-genre exhibition by Dimitar Mitovski that allows—and even actively engages in—a direct intervention in our notion of a single rational reality. The artist places the emphasis on the paradoxical nature of the idea of a historical interpretation of reality, passed through the compression of time. The loss in translation between social groups and generations sometimes turns what is meaningful into meaningless, what is deeply engaged into detached, and what is familiar into something entirely unfamiliar. In this context, Dimitar Mitovski’s memories of an era of studious, committed conceptualism lead to a deliberate visual appropriation of the seminal 1977 album “Animals” by the British band “Pink Floyd”. The emblematic images of the power plant—a symbol of the modern project—and the inflatable pig as an anti-utopian symbol, created by Orwell, enter the system of conceptual thinking—the complex historical and political context of the period limits their full comprehension, both then and today. The inevitable aberrations produced by memory lead the consciousness of the artist himself toward transforming a once-lived historical reality from absolute truth into pure speculation—in this sense, replacing the pig with an extraterrestrial is a provocative metaphor that draws on the visual cliché of the “little green man”. In this particular case, we might even reconsider the “little green man” as a metaphor for an unfamiliar intellectual presence—namely artificial intelligence. The exhibition presents a series of prints, sculptures, NFTs, and a collector’s edition of the eponymous vinyl record “Cosmic Noise”. Ivan Stefanov
