The Stranger in Us 2005, video installation, 12 min in loop. the video installation consists: dark space ; two metal screens (variable size) ; a DVD player hanging on the ceiling ; a video projector Two faces, two artists facing one spectator or more, ultimately, facing each other. The stranger is in us, outside us, in front of us. A male voice in the background spells out an English written text of Nina Kovacheva and Valentin Stefanoff. The amassing portraits of the two artists- always the same but different altogether - on the black ground, the back sound, the songs of birds, the rain, well, all create a hypnotic vision where the same assessments and the same questions come back in loops. The portraits blink at times and darken themselves for a second then rapidly retaking the course of questioning and looking at each other. The play of gazes amplifies. The two portraits-artists-spectators are isolated, each confined within their panel. The condition of the artist is therefore its solitude, its strangeness facing herself/himself. Part 1 Part 2