Eyealignment (2021)

Voin de Voin
40x40x10 cm, water, lenses, film strip
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The formed organism that we call collective should have a few essential qualities. For me, its strength lies in the fact that its tentacles are able to sense differently. Some spots of the ground, air or liquid- the element it moves through, has different consistency and senses differently. Its electric and neuron paths are sending information back into the centre via complex ways of transmissions, signals, signs that later forms up a language. It also translates via the different sectors that the information passes through. In the centre, it collects and preserves, it stores and it's being examined. The different length of passage and perspectives make that information being classified differently in order to once collected, the data forms up a vital unit of a force that will finally create a body - an intuitive body - a thinking body. complete not separate in parts moving unit. That particular body also radiates a sphere of consciousness connected to a kind of different modus operandi. For its most effective performance, it often relies on its morphic resonance ability to connect, hear and receive "food for thought" by its core particle - the collective unconscious. A space within a space, where other qualities are being rehearsed, imagined, projected, reformed, dreamed upon.
Eyelighment is a visual and mental exercise where the viewer experiences different brain cortex possibilities to connect to external, alien memory of something that can be appropriated and understood, but rather it remains dipped in the liquid of our own cognitive sensibility about the world uninterpreted.

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Voin de Voin (1978) lives and works in Sofia/Bulgaria. He holds a MA from the Academy of Theatre and Dance, Amsterdam/The Netherlands, and a diploma from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam; Goldsmiths, University of London/UK; and EICAR – École Internationale de Création Audiovisuelle et de Réalisation of Paris/France.
Since 2016, Voin de Voin is running an independent art space in Sofia called ÆTHER. In 2017, he founded the Sofia Art Week.
Voin de Voin works in various fields of the visual arts, ranging from performance to installation, incorporating his research in collective rituals, psycho-geography, sociology, psychology, and new media. He has also participated and shown in numerous international art institutions and events, such as: documenta 14 (off space), Athens/Greece (2017); Manifesta 11, Zurich/Switzerland (2016); 56th Venice Biennale (off program), Venice/Italy (2015); Melbourne International Art Festival, Melbourne/Australia (2009); Museum of Modern Art (MoMa), New York/USA (2007).
As a freelancer in the field of organization and curation he worked at: Nordic Biennale, DOMA Art Festival (2015), Sofia; Dutch Fashion Biennale Performance program, Arnhem and others/The Netherlands; and Sofia Art week.
Voin de Voin had received awards from the Mondrian Foundation for Visual Arts, Amsterdam (2008) and Das Arts Stichting for the Arts (2006–2008). Voin de Voin is represented by Sariev Contemporary in Plovidv since 2011.

Website: voinvoin.wixsite.com/voindevoin