Ivan Moudov, The Pavilion, 2019
Sound Installation

The Pavilion is a sound installation composed of 23 loudspeakers. The project gives voice to 23 proposals rejected from the selection process for the Bulgarian Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale. Each loudspeaker transmits a recorded voice reading the concept of one unrealized project.
Installed throughout the gallery space, the loudspeakers form a multichannel sound environment in which all recordings are played simultaneously. The overlapping voices produce a controlled cacophony that reflects the mechanisms of institutional selection and exclusion. By approaching individual sound sources, visitors can isolate and listen to each project separately, momentarily suspending the collective noise of the selection process.

Ivan Moudov (1975, Sofia) graduated in 2002 from the National Academy of Arts in Sofia. His artistic practice spans photography, video, performance, and installation. His work, which has a strong metaphorical charge, questions the sociopolitical and economic conditions of art and its relationship to systems of power. By subverting their existing norms and rules the artist reveals the levers of their functioning.
Ivan Moudov has presented his work at numerous solo and group exhibitions: Moderna Museet (Stockholm), Cabaret Voltaire (Zürich), Kunstverein Braunschweig (Braunschweig), the 52nd Venice Biennale, the 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, and Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK (Vienna).