ONE Gallery presents Slav Nedev with works from the Yogurt Culture series in a virtual exhibition. The title of the series was inspired by a humorous expression among residents of a remote area in New York State, which says: “If you want culture, you have to buy yogurt.” This joke, mentioned by American artist Louise Pirotta, became the occasion for a small competition between colleagues living in different parts of the world. The exhibition features digital prints created using Acrylic-Bond technology, as well as short video works.
The main compositions were created using 3D modeling and simulations of physical forces and real-world phenomena.
Nevertheless, setting aside the humorous beginning, the exhibition relates to those associations symbolized by milk as a primal nutritional substance, and specifically milk altered by microorganisms. These are the processes of fermentation and transformation, maturation, preservation, nutrition, satisfying thirst/hunger, and nourishing with new energy—archetypal states that are part of the dynamics of life. In the works of the series, yogurt is placed within the abstract spaces of the sky or nothingness, thus liberated from any concreteness, which lends it the cosmic dimensions characteristic of myth.
The project for the online presentation of the Yogurt Culture exhibition is realized with the support of the Sofia Municipality, under the “Solidarity in Culture” initiative #Солидарност_В_Културата.
