SubHuman Curiosity

With SubHuman Curiosity, Shurelov is exploring curiosity. Curiosity describes behavioral and psychological mechanisms that impel beings to seek information and interaction with their environment and with other beings. In this way curiosity becomes a synonym for society.

Shurelov has placed a black box on the ground of his marketplace. The content is unknown and is doubly protected: by the box and by a circle of tall, closely knit anthropoid wooden figures who crowd around it, preventing passers by from approaching the box. To satisfy their curiosity, people must circle round these figures in order to find a gap.

So, what’s inside the mystery box – something untouchable, a forgotten memory, something dangerous, expensive, tasty, nothing?

Human curiosity evokes thoughts and actions, and, combined with the ability to think in an abstract way, leads to mimesis, fantasy and imagination – eventually even to the destruction of boundaries, to distinguishing oneself and to distancing oneself from the crowd.

Откриване 12 октомври 2007 г., Брюксел, площад "Sainte-Catherine"
Изложба „Agorafolly outside/inside”, „Еuropalia 2007”

Opening 12 October 2007, Brussels, Place Sainte-Catherine"
Exhibition „Agorafolly outside/inside”, „Еuropalia 2007”

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3D simulation



БНТ - По света и у нас, видео емисия 20:00, 21 октомври 2007 г.
BNT - News, video emission 20:00, 21 October 2007




Reaction & Petition "vandalism Agorafolly"


Проекта е реализиран с подкрепата на Министерство на културата на Република България, Посолството на Република България в Брюксел, Фондация "Europalia International"

The project is supported by Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Bulgaria, Embassy of Republic of Bulgaria in Brussels, "Europalia International" Foundation