WAITING / NIGHT SMOKE

2022

HD video, LCD screen mounted in a wIndow frame

Edition of 3+1

62x40x12 cm.

WAITING / NIGHT SMOKE is a reflection of the pandemic times, when Missirkov and his family had to spend several months in isolation in the Rhodope mountains during the lockdown.

Filmed at the same location two years later, the video combines a timelapse of the view from the window, for the duration of an entire night, with the smoke puffs of a cigarette, smoked in real time. The temporal disbalance of the two layers creates an image of uncertainty and surreal timelessness that we were feeling at that moment.

Together with Bogdanov’s THE HAPPIEST DAYS OF MY LIFE, the video is part of a two-piece work that deals with the personal experiences of each member of the duo during the pandemic.

Post-production: Illusion Box studio, Sofia

Sound design: Kaloyan Dimitrov