Kristina Kostadinova

KRISTINA KOSTADINOVA (Sofia, Bulgaria, 1985).
"Buzludja outdoor", Amnesia series.
Photograph, copy 6/15.
Signed on the back.
With Victor Lope Galería label on the back.
A copy of this work is on display at the MACBA (Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona).
Size: 98 x 125 cm; 100 x 128 cm (frame).
With this photograph Kristina Kostadinova invites us to reflect on the value of architectural monuments and the passage of time. She uses her camera to capture the ruined and now forgotten buildings of Communist Bulgaria, the only political force with a strong Marxist-Leninist ideology that governed between 1946 and 1990. On this occasion he immortalises the exterior of the Buzludja monument, located at the top of the homonymous Buzludja or Buzludzh mountain, one of the largest ideological monuments erected in Bulgaria and a former Soviet congress hall, now abandoned. Victor Lope Gallery, the artist's representative, defines her work as follows: "Little by little, beliefs disappear and lose their magic. But works of architecture remain and continue to inspire mankind for years to come. Society distances itself from religion and loses the notion of the ethnic origin of its foundations. What does this mean? It means that the real immaterial power of architecture is the soul (spirit) of the art, the style of the architect who has projected an ideology onto the space.