And then I am seized by another vertigo, that of the detail of the detail of the detail, I am sucked into the infinitely small, as before I was scattered in the infinitely vast
Italo Calvino, “Six Memos for the Next Millennium”
It is no coincidence that at the beginning of their creative journey, many artists based their work on the pursuit of balanced and universal art, conceived as a means to achieve harmony that adapts to reality. Beyond the formal schemes characterizing their creative research, one can often discover a poetic vein, a total essence where sensitivity is channeled through intelligent and orderly consideration that distributes the various elements forming the visual imagination. The artwork thus represents a spontaneous and experimental moment of creative ideation, clearly showing the formation of the image, the horizon as writing that, emerging from the unconscious, becomes visual thought. In this context arises the photographic series titled "Metamorphoses of the Horizon," presented in its first solo exhibition in Italy. These works fully express the sense of visual and spontaneous essentiality, yet are structurally tied to a vision of nature and the infinite horizon of life. In composing her works, the artist captures the throbbing feeling of light—suspended between earth and sky—where lines blur within perspective. The compositions, halfway between naturalistic recall and geometric rigor, exalt chromatic distribution. These “photographic compositions,” through complex technical and conceptual manipulation, explore the boundaries of photography itself, which can be interrupted or merged through different exposure techniques. Created from traditional 24x36mm frames running along a 35mm film, the attention is drawn to the thin vertical lines dividing the frames, appearing as narrow 24x2mm strips, translating the concept of reading between the lines of a text. They show that the horizon is conceived as a dynamic, changeable entity whose visibility transforms over time. This vision unfolds through various moments of the day, during which visibility changes and questions the stable perception of the horizon as an eternal horizontal line. By using multiple exposures, the artist seeks a total space within the frame, where perspective lines and those separating shots form a geometric composition of intersecting horizontal and vertical elements. This allows for new components—from sky to earth—to enter, staging a visual contradiction that offers different readings based on spatial extension, resolving the surface through tones and chromatic suggestions that exalt the sharp, pure intoxication of infinity. “Art is a step from nature toward the infinite.” — Kahlil Gibran. Thus, this experience takes on the mark of past and future, of what has always been and what will be; an abandonment in suspended time without beginning or end. In a single word: beauty.
The project was carried out with the collaboration of the National Culture Fund of Bulgaria and the Culture Programme of the Municipality of Sofia.