When the ever-growing mounds of rubbish overflow the borders of the administrative indifference and become an artistic subject matter, one could remain hopeful that not everything is lost.

Bulgarian artist Svetoslav Nedev offers his views on how the environment we live in is threatened by the advancing plastic bottles and plastic packages through his installation Biotop (from Greek: ‘bio’ meaning ‘life’, and ‘topos’ meaning ‘place’), which will be presented at the visual Arts festival held in Varna from August 7 to 18.

The fifth edition of the festival will be thematically united under the Natural/Human motto. More than 133 Bulgarian and 27 foreign artists will have their works featured through 40 exhibitions displayed in 20 museums, art galleries and other venues in Varna.

According to the festival’s website, the Natural/Human motif is meant to discuss those two essential concepts that define our contemporary state of mind and the world that surrounds us. 

Svetoslav Nedev’s work is a reminder that maybe we still have time to save our ‘biotop’. His installation is a 3D composition of empty rubbish containers, inviting the consumption-ridden society to save itself from suffocation.