Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort...

2011, color photographs series, pigment print on 310 g paper mounted on aluminum, 90/135 cm each

EA 6 + 2 AP

collection ArtProject Depot, Sofia, Private Collection, Varna

The title of the series is a quotation of a fragment from Paul Valery¹ cited by Walter Benjamin in the known "Work of Art..."². The complete phrase follows.
"Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign."

1. Paul Valéry, Pièces sur L’Art, 1931
2. Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, 1936.

Krassimir Terziev: Between the Past Which is about to Happen and the Future Which has Already Been, Aug 4 — Sept 5, 2015, National Gallery Sofia; curator Iara Boubnova

Krassimir Terziev: Between the Past Which is about to Happen and the Future Which has Already Been, Apr 12 — May 6, City Art Gallery Dobrich

Spare Time. Utopias on the verge of the Commonness, National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia, 2011; curator: Boris Danailov