The curatorial project of Desislava Dimova and artist Alexandra Chaushova, presented by the foundation in the competition for the Bulgarian pavilion at the Venice Biennale, was ranked 3rd out of a total of 17 applications.
Romantic Species is a meditation on the problem of identity, otherness, and exoticism, which extends not only to human destiny, but also to the history of assimilating the foreign and different from nature. Birds from distant lands have been known and sought after since antiquity, and geographical discoveries, trade, and colonialism have increased access to and interest in the study of all kinds of exotic species of flora and fauna.
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Romantic Species
Artist: Aleksandra Chaushova
Curator: Dessislava Dimova
Romantic Species is a meditation on the subject of identity, otherness and exoticism, which extends not only to human destiny, but also to the history of assimilation of the foreign and the different in the natural world. Birds from distant lands have been known and sought after since Antiquity, and geographic explorations, trade and colonialism have increased access and interest in the study of exotic species of flora and fauna.