TIMESPACE

Our present makes me think that we don’t really belong to a specific place,

country, region, historical, cultural or social space.

For example, I’m from Sofia, but I’ve been living in Berlin for 5 years now and

maybe this isn’t my last stop. Many young people are nomads, moving from one

space to another, encountering different social realities and relationships,

cultural orders or subcultural peculiarities.

That is why in this project, I decided to graphically present a visualization of my

intermediate spaces - my travels, my locations and periods of my life in the past

years. The boundaries that are both present and absent in our consciousness

and subconscious.

That “the-in-between space” at airports has always made me wonder where

exactly I am. It is these intermediate spaces that serve as imaginary corridors in

time and space, or portals leading to the uncertain future of our ambitions, our

cultural and national identities.

In the timeline, you can see different transitions or periods of stagnation.

Sometimes you stop at a certain point and stay there, or you have to move on.

My passport is also present here, because until last year, it was checked when I

entered or left Germany (and this was necessary because Bulgaria was accepted

into the Schengen area very recently – on January 1, 2025). For me, my passport is

my “key” to the imaginary doors between the spaces of the different cultures

in which I live simultaneously.

It depends on the passport data, the numbers, the photo, the biometrics and the

national coat of arms whether the doors will open in front of you or not. For how

many people in the world, the passport becomes a metaphor, symbolizing the

right to spatial freedom? The right to travel. The right to seek oneself in the

“interspace” of our still so unequal world for some people.