Truth Reconsidered | Viktor Chouchkov-son 

17. 01-15. 02.2025 г.
 
Curators: Missirkov/ Bogdanov
 
I’m not sure if we could fully trust the photography as an authentic representation of a person or some occurrence, as it all depends on the author’s view point and the context within which the photograph is taken. Every photograph can be manipulated in some ways, it can direct the way we see it. Even the choice of a theme is an interference. As a whole the cinema searches for believable human experiences or certain truths within the parameters of a story. The same happens in photography. Yet cinema or photography can profoundly move us beyond scientific explanations. It is interesting to explore what is the real truth behind one portrait, behind a face, behind a moment in space and time…Something that ‘rings true’ with the viewer. Maybe that’s the power of the photography or the visual arts - the unsaid - to be left for the
viewer’s imagination to fill the gaps, the dialogue - between different moments in time.
 
Viktor Chouchkov
 
Most of the photographs exhibited were created during the making of 18%Grey, a film about a Bulgarian photographer who, following the loss of his love, embarks on a journey from the U.K. across Europe towards his homeland.
 
Against post Brexit Europe, bleak landscapes and alienated individuals, the director and photographer, Viktor Chouchkov, draws from his own photographs and explores the unique capacities of the photographic medium investigating the act of creating, looking and capturing, How does one wants to be perceived? Self represented? How can one be authentic? Can photography help to heal the wounds? To harmonise the world around us? What is authentic or really true?
 
In the photographs – Dolya Gavanski, Susanne Wuest, Rushen Vidinliev, Norman Bowman, Joke Emmers, Boris Van Severen, Zachary Baharov