"Kaliya Kalacheva’s exhibition “Mixed Reality” continues her line of research and challenging the concept of landscape – as a visual experience and as a genre in painting. Continuous excitement for the artist is the rhythm of the present day with the needs of ever more vivid haste, feverishness, gluttony, overconsumption of experiences and products, the desire of today’s society for things to happen here and now, all at once. Past, present and future intersect, collide, heat up. It is as if the slow and meaningful living, contemplation and immediacy have evaporated. We live between the real and the virtual, and the lines of intersection are increasingly thin. The current exhibition with abstract painting discusses precisely the problems of the hypertime in a state of “mixed reality”.
Kaliya Kalacheva steps on this environment characteristic of our time and embarks on dynamic painting experiments with the aesthetic impact. Each painting is intersected by lines creating a sense of layered reality/s. As artificial intelligence enters art, the question of “how” is a work created emerges extensively – does it involve virtual, augmented reality, or is this mixed reality entirely the work of the artist’s imagination and hand? Kaliya Kalacheva’s abstract landscapes oscillate between the real and the imaginary, resemble something, but also nothing concrete. Altered and strengthened, they deceive but also lead, ask riddles and seek answers."
- Teodora Konstantinova
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