[Nelly Gavrilova] [text] [cv] [на български] [pictures]

Is it possible to seek and find a balance in the pair Ordinary-Unordinary? How can one express such a balance? Without to look for (or impose) a specific definition of what “ordinary” means, I assume (in this case) that ordinary people are artists each trying to identify oneself as a personality, as “I” in a society where often we live unnoticed, unrecognized and identity-less. While sensitive and active to the outside world in which she lives and creates, artist’s personal creative space remains untouched and unburdened by worldly notions such as racism, fanatism, and other “-isms.” Thus, how can the uniqueness of ordinary people - artists, creators who are searching, provocative, and sometimes shocking and unique in their imperfections, be expressed? For any artist is a center of a small universe that is much more interesting and exciting than the outside reality one lives in.

In this sense, I want to show a cycle of few black and white photographs that present and analyze people both in their natural environment – home, street, club, car and in externally imposed and foreign circumstances. In so doing, I seek to find out whether ordinary people when situated in foreign to them conditions and isolated from their typical environment can continue to be “ordinary.”