Dump-yard inventory

Kalin Mihov's installation Dump yard Inventory systematizes pictorial compositions of various materials, textures and colors, created on the site of an unregulated landfill near the village of Gorno Pestene located in North-west region of Bulgaria - the poorest region in Europe. The individual components and the interrelationships accumulated over time between them are carefully classified into a new, non-place-specific structural unity, essentially nothing is added and nothing is taken away from the place, only the nature and function of the objects is changed.

In the form of a happening, with the support of residents of the village , the landfill is sorted into a table with an area of 192 square meters, in which each cell contains a different type of found waste. Focusing in this way on the chronic problems for peripheral areas in Bulgaria - the lack of good infrastructure and logistics for regular garbage collection, limited or absent access to the possibility of separate collection of waste and its recycling -, "Landfill Inventory" also refers to more central questions for the contemporary man: over-consumption, the human footprint on nature, waste management and climate change.

Bird's-eye documentation summarizes the author's intervention in the space.