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Ivaylo Saraliyski

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Biography

Ivaylo Saraliyski (b. 1993) is a visual artist, researcher, and lecturer whose work explores the symbolic and transformative potential of AI, Tarot, and generative systems in the context of human–machine collaboration. He holds a PhD in Visual Arts and teaches at New Bulgarian University.

Archive records · BUNA vol.3 / 2025

I EXIST / I RESIST, 2025 Programmable LED display, aluminum casing, PVC mounting brackets, power cable, programmed text loop 96 x 16 cm

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with Darina Naydenova

I EXIST / I RESIST is an LED installation that reclaims the language of identity and defiance within systems of control and visibility. Using minimalist text in a format traditionally associated with advertising, alert messages, and digital authority, the work subverts function with meaning. It asserts that even bare presence can be a radical act. The message “I EXIST / I RESIST” becomes a public mantra: persistent, embodied, unavoidable. It resists the spectacle of image and instead foregrounds the urgency of text, repetition, and rhythm. The binary speaks not of separation, but of simultaneity – existence is resistance, resistance is existence.