Tentative Accord
June 6-14, 2026
Site-specific installation
Part of COEXISTENCE, the 37th edition of Process-Space Festival
The Mill (Melnitsata) Balchik (Bulgaria)
Tentative Accord
This site-specific installation brings together materials collected along the shoreline of Balchik. Organic remains, geological matter, and human-made debris exist in a state of mutual influence, where boundaries between categories become increasingly porous. The installation holds together through a delicate web of tensions, dependencies, and encounters, suggesting that living together—whether between species, materials, or ecosystems—is never fixed, but always in the making. What emerges is not a resolution, but a provisional state of becoming, sustained by vulnerability as much as by connection.
Many of these relationships remain almost imperceptible until we choose to look more closely. Attachment emerges through attention: what first appears distant, insignificant, or disconnected gradually reveals itself through proximity and time. In this sense, coexistence becomes a practice of noticing, of attending to the fragile bonds that exist in the spaces between things.
Each stone bears a painted fragment of the beluga sturgeon's body (an eye, a fin, or part of its skeleton). Native to the Black Sea basin, this critically endangered species has long been exploited for its highly prized caviar. Beyond caviar production, its skin has also been used to manufacture luxury leather goods, including decorative objects and footwear.
The beluga sturgeon is considered an important indicator of environmental health. As a species highly sensitive to
water pollution, habitat degradation, and changes to river systems, its decline reflects the deteriorating
condition of aquatic ecosystems. By depicting only fragments of its body, the work evokes both the physical
dismemberment caused by human exploitation and the gradual disappearance of a species whose survival
is inseparable from the health of the waters it inhabits.
