Nedko Solakov
New Noah's Ark, Stupidity & The Wave
Solo Exhibition
Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin, 2007

NEW NOAH’S ARK

From somewhere “elsewhere” an instruction has been issued to a common man (Noah) to save the strange creatures which had “landed” one morning in the bathroom of his panel apartment. The creatures had come from another world (already gone); passing through his bathroom (the border between his and their world) and they only had to be “taken” by him to that “elsewhere.” Nothing out of Noah’s world was to get in the container (the Ark) – except these creatures.

And Noah’s world had been doomed (that’s what those from the “elsewhere” told him). This was the Eve of Earth’s Last Day …

A “classical” painting (Noah’s Breakfast), a small stone with the inscription “you” on it (which Noah found that same morning under his pillow), twelve drawings of the Ark, one book which describes everything in depth, strange sounds of running water and many, many gaily colored plastic creatures, crawling to their (but not our) deliverance.

Nedko Solakov, 1991