Vladislav Lepoev

BulgariaArtists

Biography

Vladislav Lepoev is a multidisciplinary visual artist and creative director whose practice spans design, typography, photography, and video. He is currently engaged in visual anthropology, video art, and socially engaged photographic projects through the Visual Research Center for Perception & Society, a nonprofit exploring the relationship between visual culture and social transformation. His work ranges from analog and lensless imaging to international film productions, encompassing conceptual photography, editorial design, and community-based art initiatives.

Archive records · BUNA vol.3 / 2025

Vitrines 5.0 Object-text installation / performance

Artists
Curator / Team
with Roberta Koleva and Bogomil Ivanov

Vitrines 5.0 subverts the display case — typically a mechanism of desire, consumer spectacle, cultural classification, and institutional authority — into a site of polyphony, uncertainty, encounter, and collective authorship. Conceived as a living experiment across public and gallery spaces in Varna, it invites passersby to contribute objects, voices, gestures, and stories, unsettling the boundaries between object and viewer, art and everyday life, “us” and the “Other.” Each vitrine becomes a counter-display where unofficial narratives displace official ones, and fixed categories fracture into contested fragments. Vitrines 5.0 asks: can a display refuse to classify, open rather than contain, and hold a “we” that resists closure?