Gery Georgieva: THE BLUSHING VALLEY/РУМЕНАТА ДОЛИНА - opening 9th December 2017 - Swimming Pool Proj

The Blushing Valley is Gery Georgieva's first solo show in Bulgaria, and marks for the artist a return to her native country.

"Valleys are productive regions. Cultivated lands.

Valleys are warm, lush, sheltered areas. Every so often, at dusk they seem to suck the sluggish, hot and heavy sky down their sloped walls as the sun retracts its rays, then you might say the valley is melancholic.

Yet they remain evasive and unruly, even after we have chartered them in maps, rendered them and transformed them into metaphors. We can’t ask ourselves questions on belonging, without getting lost in them. There we grapple with our desires for self-identification.

In the valley we also find woman. Mother Earth, The Rose Queen, daughter of a nation, field worker, Disneyland princess, valley girl. Wearer of blushing dusks, calming lotions, radiant creams. She is illuminated by the golden oily beams, from the product of an entire valley, ready to be exported.

The bearer of a pure national essence. If you so crave it…

In these valleys, we also find tourists, ambling. They arrive without embarrassment and full of apparent clarity. They photograph and dispel our complex of perspectives, uncertainties, the opacity of how we imagine ourselves vanishes. These visitors are hungry omnivores. They swallow clichés whole, and us along with them."

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