Annulment of the End of Things

Annulment of the End of Things, a scenario for a theatre play and projects for costumes and for theatre sets. A work on the inherent desire for eternity of any ideology. The projects for theater sets are in fact the architecture plans for the Mausoleum of Georgi Dimitrov in Sofia. The building was built in 1949 with two main functions - to preserve and expose the body of the dead leader Georgi Dimitrov. In fact, it served as  a podium for theatre like rituals of power and a display of the immortality of an ideology. It was doubling the mausoleum of Lenin in Moscow. The building was made facing the former tzar palace in a conquest of symbolic power. The idea of how power could be overtaken didn't change much during the following 50 years, as the democratic government took the decision to destroy the building by means of explosion in 1999. Now this building exists only on the level of images (plans and photographs).

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The play represents an utopia around the desire for immortality. It’s called “Annulment of the End of things”: a government announces the annulment of any kind of death. It’s necessary as the principle problem of human existence is the fear of the end of things. The different points of view of the different characters are written in the manner of epic theater.

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The projects for costumes are drawn on the same papers as the architecture plans, meticulously following the folds in trompe-l’oeil and pretending to come from the same archive.

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This work was presented at La Centrale.lab in Brussels in 2016, and at Sofia City Art Gallery and Neue Museum in Nurnberg in 2015.