STOYAN BARAKOV

Air Mail

5x9 inches/ 7 standard envelope size

  Air Mail is a piece that consists of seven bronze casted envelopes bundled together with the use of twine. The work, object-based, explores material as memory through the use of the correspondence kept over the course of the past three years. It evokes nostalgic feelings from the past brought into a concrete reality of the present. The dying art of letter writing made monumental by resurrecting the idea in a solid-state...

A bridge, a point of connection between two worlds, geographical locations; Eastern Europe and North America. The movement, the process of mailing and receiving, and how these qualities have been stripped away from the solidified signifiers.