Presentation of Meredith Drum and Nova Benway

Meredith Drum

Nova Benway

ICA-Sofia and Structura Gallery invite you to a presentation of Meredith Drum and Nova Benway – residents of the international platform Art Prospect

7 June, Friday, 6.30 pm, ICA-Sofia Gallery, ul. Vasil Levski 134 (duration 60 min.)

Meredith Drum is an interdisciplinary artist working with video, animation, installation, augmented reality, and various modes of public participation. Her projects center around the cultivation of care for others, both humans and non-humans. She is influenced by socialist feminism, cinema history, swimming in the ocean, climate justice, multispecies anthropology, cultural studies, walking in the woods, science fiction, riding bikes with loved ones, contemporary visual culture, and her family, friends, and cats.

She will discuss Leshoyad’s Garden, a collaborative virtual sculpture made as part of her CEC Art Prospect residency in Sofia with Structura Gallery in summer 2022. The work-in-progress includes contributions from Bulgarian artists and writers Albena Baeva, Slava Savova, Dessi Terzieva, Martin Atanasov, Eva Davidova and Zhivka Baltadzhieva.

Leshoyad’s Garden project can be seen HERE.

Nova Benway has been Executive Director of Triangle Arts Association since 2017. She was previously a curator at The Drawing Center in New York City, where she co-directed Open Sessions, a two-year residency/exhibition hybrid program organized with local, national, and international artists, supporting drawing practices in relation to film, architecture, sculpture, music, and other fields. An alumna of the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, she also holds a B.A. from McGill University, Montreal.

Nova Benway will discuss the history, mission and program of Triangle Arts Association, an artist residency founded in New York in 1982, which hosts year-round residencies for local and international artists and curators. Triangle offers spacious studios and a dynamic artistic community to support the development of ambitious projects with emphasis on dialogue and experimentation. Triangle’s founding concept and current programs de-emphasize professionalization and specific outcomes, instead allowing artists generous space, context and community within which to focus on their ideas and process. Beyond workspace, regular gatherings, public events, open studios, and visits from curators are organized.

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