Text by Sabine Himmelsbach
Artistic Director of Edith Russ House for Media Art
In his infrared installation Post Global Warming Survival Kit, the Bulgarian artist Petko Dourmana plunges viewers into a post-apocalyptic eschatological scenario of the kind described so compellingly in countless science fiction novels or Hollywood films. Dourmana makes the fear of an invisible menace palpable, something to be physically experienced. On entering the room, viewers at first think there is nothing in it but an old caravan. Only the use of a night vision device enables viewers to experience the landscape surrounding them.