Von Slav Nedev hochgeladen im Album Remains (1995 - 96) am 28.02.2011

The REMAINS series was created in 1995 and 1996. All 35 works are the same size (50x65cm). Almost all compositional elements are subsumed under certain mathematical rules. The series was inspired by a number of photos made as part of a metal fatigue research, a field in which there are high tensions and deformations, resulting in interesting forms and textures. Later, some images from the trivial round were added, but now subsumed under the main theme.

Initially the idea was simply to aestheticize the remains i.e. things that are utilized and already useless. However, in the work process, it turned out that trivial objects could carry additional and more complex meanings.

The remains are things left of something else (that is already not in its initial state). Being a result of the change they put us directly into the time stream. If we imagine, what the things were like, how they slowly have or have been changed and how they will disappear, we become aware of the course of Time.
On the other hand, we could take these deformed objects, this tired matter as a metaphor of the end of the industrial society along with its pretensions and its impudence. Nothing and nobody has escaped the deep quiet gloom of Time, where only the Remains remain for a moment, before finally being absorbed by the Eternity.