Campfire 2016/2022
Razklon Gallery, Tsarino Foundation
Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria 2023

recycled tent fabrics
80 x 80 x 80 cm

The Campfire is lightweight, foldable, unbreakable and resistant to sun, cold and rain. It seems to be the perfect equipment for a trip into nature. Hiking and camping is associated with a romantic image of nature. Likewise, a campfire at dusk in a wild landscape is one of the most sensual experiences.
This tourist equipment stands for the relationship between humankind and nature. While nature is placed under protection in segregated areas, a growing economy of nature tourism is simultaneously imposing itself on it.
The staging in a display case in the vastness of the mountain ranges is also about the paradoxical conditionality between the longing for connection with nature and the simultaneous certainty of returning to the security of one's own living environment.