Maya Antova - Mayoto

Close and Distant

Cartoon exhibition

In today’s highly technologically developed societies, the skills we need to survive have changed. Sport has become a mandatory way of maintaining good physical shape for the urbanized individual. At the same time doing sport is the norm for people of a certain social status. On the other hand physical labor on the field which was so widespread just 50 years ago and is still necessary for providing food, is now on its way to extinction. The energy needed to do manual labor has transformed in all sorts of sport activities and obsessions in the big city. Nevertheless we shouldn’t forget that around 70% of the human population still does manual agricultural labor to feed the world. In the series “Close and Distant” I’m trying to find the answers – with a pinch of humor – to questions affecting the different human beings, so close to each other but at the same time so different. The Homo sapiens individualists.

Are the tools we use what gives us a feeling of the standard of living we belong to? Is the way we use our energy defining our intellectual and spiritual growth?

Maya Antova – Mayoto is an artist working with visuals for music performances and installations. Along with this work she also creates illustrations and caricatures. She is interested in the social and personal changes inspired by the digital revolution, how man is using and is being used by the electronic products. Since 1998 she took part in several individual and collective exhibitions and art festivals in Dresden (Germany), Sofia (Bulgaria), Mainz (Germany) and more.

Maya Antova has a master’s degree in semiotics of the visual arts and is currently working on her doctorate at Sofia University.

mamayoto@gmail.com