Forum BUNA vol. 3

To The Artworks

Forum BUNA vol. 3 : „Discovery and Otherness in the Era of 5.0“

3 – 8 September 2025
Vernissage at Largo Gallery – Wednesday, 3 September 2025, 4:00 PM - 9:00 PM

For the third consecutive year, Largo gallery is hosting two exhibitions as part of the forum for contemporary art BUNA. The gallery team has been actively and devotedly involved in the organization of the festival since its very inception.

This year, Largo gallery is offering its two halls to teh amazing Bulgarian contemporary artists Eslitsa Popova and Rada Mateva.

HALL 1: The guest gallery Arosita will present Eslitsa Popova and her exhibition "The Courage of the Rabbits" - a showcase of origami works commenting on war and the artists’ desire to save the world from evil through their art.
About her project Eslitsa shares:
"My story with the rabbits doesn’t work, because wars continue. They multiply. Is ferocity increasing? Or has it always been there, just sometimes it erupts? Folding was something like a retreat into gesture and color, a solidarity with the ant-like repetitive and monotonous gestures of the soldier, a renunciation of humor, play, love, a refusal of everything that makes life worthwhile. You fold until stupidity stops. But it doesn’t work. The war goes on. People haven’t grown wiser. For three years I’ve been folding - I’ve had enough! I’m stopping! Maybe they will stop too?"

HALL 2: Rada Mateva and the installation "re.born" - an interactive voice-bot designed to inspire and support through its responses, which are translated into abstract visuals in real time. The work becomes a living, evolving video installation reflecting discourse around motherhood, work, and gender. re.born is both artistic exploration and social commentary, gathering firsthand experiences from mothers and feeding them into AI to reframe societal norms, policies, and perceptions of gendered labour.

The opening of the exhibitions of Eslitsa Popova and Rada Mateva will take place with a vernissage on September 3 - the first day of BUNA, from 4:00 PM to 9:00 PM. The exhibitions will be available to the Varna public until September 15 in Hall 1 and Hall 2 of Largo Gallery, 8 Han Krum str. The exhibitions are part of the program of the BUNA Forum for Contemporary Art, realized with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture, the French Institute in Bulgaria, the Embassy of France in Bulgaria, the Culture Fund of Varna Municipality, The Singer-Zahariev Foundation, and the Embassy of Slovenia in Sofia.