Market of Desire: Women’s Market

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The first stage of the opening exhibition is a site-specific performance by Ivan Moudov in the new space of PUNTA. With it, the artist will intervene in the architectural integrity of the gallery, laying the foundations for the debut, group exhibition (and all the others). In his work, Moudov addresses the constituent elements of the white cube, where "the sanctity of the church, the formality of the courtroom, the mystique of the experimental laboratory combine with chic design to create a unique aesthetic chamber" (O'Doherty). In an attempt to achieve all these qualities simultaneously, the performance will explore the potential of the artistic gesture to transform a former shop into a gallery. 

II. Opening of the group exhibition.

The exhibition features a selection of artists from PUNTA and Cable Depot galleries who present works inspired by the context of the Women's Market in Sofia. "Market of Desire: Women's Market” deals with a wide range of topics - capitalist realism and its impact on traditional culture and communities, shops as a mirror of the times and the longings of the people who inhabit it, but also the market as part of the ecology of the city. Happening in a former fish shop, second-hand clothes shop and now gallery, the exhibition will consider shops and their windows as mechanisms for creating imagination linked to the collective dreaming of a city.