Rada Boukova


“All is vanity and hot air...”

Rada Boukova’s works appear to be temporary, even ephemeral objects ; it’s as if even the minutest intervention can destroy them. The materials she uses make her works vulnerable to transformation with time – a process through which they might reach the limit of their existence. Stimulated by this inherent threat, our memory captures their tender state in the present moment… But this state is neither easy nor arbitrary. Each of Rada Boukova’s works is constructed with the help of a solid scaffolding of inner logic and mathematical organization of the objects…

Vyara Mlechevska responds to Still Life at the Gallery of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia, 2 October – 14 November 2009, Kultura Weekly, Issue 36, 22 October 2009 www.kultura.bg/bg/article/view/16159