Inspired by Marcel Proust and "In Search of Lost Time," a seven-volume novel published between 1913 and 1927, Bulgarian-born photographer Elina Kechicheva, who has lived in France for over three decades, challenges us with her personal interpretation of the novel's main themes - our sense of time, the sensory nature of memories, the essence of dreams, and the invisible reality that turns us into protagonists of something impossible to express, see, or reveal, but a part of our life journey. The novel referred as a "verbal cathedral," and in its silence and magical presence, Elina Kechicheva captures what she uses as a guide in this project – a quote from Marcel Proust that seemingly translates into an understandable language what the images evoke, like a whiff of memories, daydreams of something perhaps already experienced: "When a man is asleep, he has in a circle round him the chain of the hours, the sequence of the years, the order of the heavenly host. Instinctively, when he awakes, he looks to these, and in an instant reads off his own position on the earth’s surface and the amount of time that has elapsed during his slumbers; but this ordered procession is apt to grow confused, and to break its ranks." Youth – the radiant messenger of this invisible reality – comes to life in an exhibition that, like the sense of time bequeathed by Proust, lived only a few hours as an exposed project, to continue its journey among those who appreciate time, youth, and the shared magic of life.
