Studio The Neighbours

22/05/2025

If you missed our talk in London last summer, we are back! Join us next Tuesday in from 18:00-19:30 (tickets in the link in bio) for the talk - The Neighbours: Memorialisation in the Absence of the State. ✨

& will speak about their collective's methodology, alongside the creation and reception of the Bulgarian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Art Biennale, Foreigners Everywhere.

Thanks to .a.maksimov for inviting us to ❤️

Images in the post:

1. playing on the compote jar, 2022
2. Fixing the AV of the installation at , 2023
3. Live audio performance with & at , 2024
4. audio testing in the studio, 2024
5. Private view speech at , 2022
6. Installation in progress at Venice Biennale, 2024
7. Portrait in the back garden of our first studio, 2022
8. Projecting videos in hotel rooms, 2019
9. Installing the kitchen at , 2023
10. & one of his favourite objects / sound testing, 2022

29/10/2024

Bulgarian Pavillion’s ‘The Neighbours’: Bridging the Memory Archipelago of the Bulgarian Communist Past by Bayr(y)am Mustafa Bayr(y)amali

"This is not a review of the Bulgarian pavilion but a challenge to deal with history’s silences, recognize my family’s past, and find the connections and bridges between my two bodies. One seeing and one actively articulating my positionality in the world in relation to the notion of nationhood, identity and language, which I was prescribed — Bulgarian Turkish."

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This is not a review of the Bulgarian pavilion but a challenge to deal with history's silences, recognize my family's past, and find the connections and bridges between my two bodies. One seeing and one actively articulating my positionality in the world in relation to the notion of nationhood, iden...

13/08/2024

You can see & follow our upcoming events and tours of the Bulgarian Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia 💥🔥 in the link below:

Bulgarian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Art Biennale