Blenda Gallery Archive

Lora Pimio works mainly in circles and she creates an imaginary world, that sometimes it’s a little bit scary if you look a little bit deeper.
Lora and Blenda will collaborate very soon and if you are brave enough you definitely should come and see her works.

Lora Pimiо was born in Sofia. She graduated from high school with a focus on arts and languages. She studied philosophy at Sofia University „St. Kliment Ohridski“ before turning to graphic design and illustration.

Her works reveal a unique world on the borderline between miniature art and the macabre. The circle is the most recurring shape in her work, constantly unveiling new images and scenes that transport the viewer from the real to the imaginary. Through her art, she encourages us to turn inward and allow our imagination to play a greater role in our lives, as it makes the world more beautiful and more whole.

The works were created between 2020 and 2025, with most of them drawn during the COVID years and the rest afterward.

„Return to Paradise“ series, making a little reference to this time of the
Anthropocene. This series works as a meeting point, to rethink and overcome this
separation of humanity with the environment, to make us reflect on the climatic
urgency, generate environmental awareness and responsibility with the planet that
contains us and we inhabit. And the question: where do we stand in this symbiotic
world, close to this common future? I like to work first based on a concept or idea.
In the process of interaction between my epicenter and the peripheral it is vital for
the creation of my art and for its renewal. Reflecting on the connection between
certain milestones such as adulthood, life, death and the way to order them,
scrutinize them, to generate a change, mutation, regeneration, sometimes it comes
out unintentionally. In The daily exercise that artists do, of recognizing ourselves in
images that arise many times, we do not really know where from, there is always the
option of jumping. To give in to the void. To give everything for something that we
don’t even know if it exists. I wanted to experience the fact of ceasing to be the
center as in my other series, to get out of focus, to focus, on something other than
myself, and it was a challenge, working with the landscape without falling into the
commonplace , get out of myself, just be behind the camera and shoot without
getting involved as part of the work. Recreate the settings, the environments, the
virginity of the landscape, the destruction of nature, the threatening demographics,
merge between the fantastic or the almost unreal. I think it has more to do with
exploration, and also with self-knowledge, running away from the place of comfort,
to create from a certain abyss and emptiness. It is a personal exploration with a
certain fragility and intentional ambiguity, which speaks of the feeling of
helplessness, separation, limits, edges, time and how the state of things is on the
verge of bursting. What is it not? What is it?. Classical science insisted on
equilibrium, order, and stability. Today we see fluctuations and instability
everywhere. We have become aware of the inherent complexity of the universe.
The more we explore the universe, the more dismayed we are by the narrative
element that we find in all its levels. Nature also presents us narratives embedded
one within another; cosmological history, histories on a molecular scale, history of
life and of man until we reach our individual history. Without stopping to ask
ourselves almost like a mantra What is it, what is on the other side? loss, pain, chaos
and the need to escape, as human beings spectators with an imaginary, reviewing
our lives and our states, and trying to connect in parallel with this real world that
sustains, that invites, enchants, that demands, that the time is so uncertain, insecure
and abstract. Life as a whole as a single cosmic entity. And it is in that path and in
that background or limit where my images aspire and where the forms begin to
dissolve.

The Persistence of Loss lingers in our minds for years, as long as we are alive and have the opportunity to experience and feel the world, and even enjoy it.

Because one of the most important things we learn is to enjoy life and live it.
As we walk our path, there is this background, that remains in some back lobe of our brain and reminds us of itself.
Even in the moments when we are most joyful, there is this constant reminder that the moment is just that—a moment. The future has arrived, and the moment is lost. It has flown by, and the persistence of loss is just a few seconds away.

Art has always been inspired by other art, as one great artist said. The theme is inspired not only by life itself but also by a song from Nine Inch Nails – „The Persistence of Loss“, and the final monologue in the movie „The Great Beauty“, where part of the words spoken by the great Toni Servillo are:

„This is how it always ends. With death. But first there was life. Hidden beneath the blah, blah, blah. It’s all settled beneath the chitter chatter and the noise. Silence and sentiment. Emotion and fear. The haggard, inconstant flashes of beauty. And then the wretched squalor and miserable humanity. All buried under the cover of the embarrassment of being in the world, blah, blah, blah… Beyond there is what lies beyond. I don’t deal with what lies beyond. Therefore… let this novel begin. After all… it’s just a trick. Yes, it’s just a trick.“
The selected artists are:
– Anabelle Moghadam
– Biser Nedialkov
– Bobby Kostadinov
– Doli Maneva
– Georgi Petrov
– Georgi Popov
– Iliyana Velinova
– Lili Petkova
– Mari Masouridou
– Matei Constantinescu
– Nyl L
– Öykü Önal
– Vasil Hristov
– Vukašin Cvetković
– Yiannis Trifonopoulos
– Ivan Ivanov

Group exhibition of students from New Bulgarian University
Experimental photography
Start 13.06 Finish 30.06

A group of students decided to dive into the past of photography and look at some of the oldest photographic techniques through a new lens, through a new PIN hall.

We recall the magical effect of physical touch on photographic processes, on our work. Works made through countless trials and errors, lots of patience and lots of laughter. Each one of us leaves a unique part in this project. Tradition seen through non-traditional eyes.

Photographers:
Kalina Stoycheva
Daniela Mancheva
Vladislav Kaimakanski
Annabelle Moghadam
Snezhana Tseneva
Zhanna-Marie Vatsova
Kalin Kolev
Polina Yaneva

Get out of my Room
Самостоятелна site-specific изложба на Diana Bunkin
30.03 – 08.04
Откриване: 30 март, събота, 18:30 ч.
Куратор и звукова среда: Георги П. Павлов

Get Out of My Room представя тъмните, интроспективни и емоционални моменти от живота на тийнейджъра, затворен в собствената си стая.

Стаята е пашкул. В основата на съзряването, наподобяващо непълна метаморфоза, се натъкваме на тийнейджърската стая като обвивка за търсене на автентичност. По време на турбулентните тийнейджърски години минаваме през множество трансформации, които стаята рефлектира като музей на една отминала субективност.

В тази интимна среда, тийнейджърите преживяват крайни чувства на самота, самосъжаление, любовни драми, запознават се с тялото си, таят омраза към света, съучениците и родителите, преоткриват желания и създават нови. Тези промени се отразяват върху всеки детайл в тяхното собствено пространство – от плакатите по стените, до хаосът под завивките. Те създават бъдеща, които се провалят, и губят минало, което постоянно ги открива. Стаята e убежището, където младежът може би най-накрая е себе си, и същевременно е в постоянен процес на изграждане на една потенциална идентичност.

Въпреки постоянните промени, и често травматичния ѝ характер, заключената стая поддържа конкретна автентичност, която преработва всичко от външния свят. Тя е като крепост, чиито правила за влизане са различни за всеки, а натрапниците никога не спазват.

При напускане на стаята тя функционира като капсула на времето, напомняща за един изгубен Аз, който просто е искал да да бъде себе си преди да се сблъска с отговорностите на живота. Всяка стая е събирателен пункт на различни емоции, трансформации и части от характера на обитателя ѝ, постепенно забравени и изоставени във времето с новите отговорности и необходимото порастване. При завръщането в инкубатора често се изненадваме от наивната искреност на собственото ни желание, отдавна удавено в бюрокрацията на живота.

Изложбата показва истината за стаята като вътрешния свят на тинейджъра отвън. Там срещаме най-големите разкрития и емоционални преживявания, скрити от външната действителност.

social medias links
https://www.instagram.com/dianabunkin/
https://www.instagram.com/synaesthesia.collective/
https://www.instagram.com/galleryblenda/

Get Out of My Room presents the dark, introspective and emotional moments in the life of a teenager trapped in his own room.

The room is a cocoon. At the heart of a coming-of-age-like incomplete metamorphosis, we encounter the teenager’s room as a shell for a search for authenticity. During the turbulent teenage years we go through multiple transformations that the room reflects as a museum of a bygone subjectivity.

In this intimate environment, teens experience extreme feelings of loneliness, self-pity, love dramas, become familiar with their bodies, harbor hatred for the world, classmates and parents, rediscover desires and create new ones. These changes affect every detail of their own space, from the posters on the walls to the chaos under the covers. They create futures that fail, and lose a past that constantly finds them. The room is the refuge where the young person may finally be themselves, and at the same time is in a constant process of constructing a potential identity.

Despite its constant changes, and often traumatic nature, the locked room maintains an authenticity that reworks everything from the outside world. It is like a fortress whose rules of entry are different for everyone, and intruders never abide.

Leaving the room makes it function like a time capsule, a reminder of a lost self that simply wanted to be itself before facing the responsibilities of life. Each room is a gathering point of different emotions, transformations, and parts of its occupant’s character, gradually forgotten and abandoned over time with new responsibilities and the necessary growing up. Upon returning to the incubator, we are often surprised by the naïve sincerity of our own desire, long drowned in the bureaucracy of life.

The exhibition shows the truth of the room as the inner world of the teenager from the outside. There we encounter the greatest revelations and emotional experiences hidden from outer reality.

Sweetly Hurt – pop-up exhibition & performance by Georgi P. Pavlov, Blenda Gallery, Rakovska 44 str.
24.03.25,

Opening: 18:00
Performance Start: 19:30
Works: Georgi Pavlov
Performance: Georgi Pavlov, Yves-Christian Angelov, Simeon Yanakiev
Design: Diana Bunkin

Sweetly Hurt is the contradiction that we live in. Sweetly Hurt is the heavy pressure to enjoy in the modern capitalist world. Sweetly Hurt is a festering wound in a time filled with endless crises. Sweetly Hurt is the experience of making art in a time that needs peace. Sweetly Hurt is the coca-cola you drink while reading the news about the next conflict. Sweetly Hurt is an attempt to comment on the current state of the world from a more privileged perspective than that of the sufferers of the horrors we share on social media. Sweetly Hurt is an attempt to express frustration with local and international issues. Sweetly Hurt is an attempt at honesty with ourselves and others.

Georgi P. Pavlov (b. 1998) is a multidisciplinary artist, curator and theorist based in Sofia, Bulgaria. He has a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and an MA in Arts and Contemporary Studies (XX – XXI century) from Sofia University “Saint Kliment Ohridski”.

He works mainly with performance, experimental music and various mixed media. His artistic interests include the formation and deconstruction of identity, creativity against the backdrop of global crises, the body as the artist’s main tool, various social and political issues, and questioning the boundaries of audience/author, process/product, among others.