Artist: Marina Razheva
Date: 2025–2026
Type: Site-specific action, performance
Materials: soap solution, air
Dimensions / Duration: Variable
Work description
Several soap bubbles are released simultaneously. One is designated as the offering, yet nothing distinguishes it from the others. Neither the artist nor the person present can identify which bubble carries the designation.
After the bubbles disappear, no material evidence remains by which the designated bubble can be identified. Photographic documentation records the action but cannot establish which bubble was designated or whether the offering was received.
The work has been developed through successive realizations in different locations. Its current structure makes a distinction operative within the action while preventing that distinction from being identified afterwards.
Realizations
19 July 2025
Sörnyepuszta & Cserfekvési, Hungary
10 June 2026
Spitzelofen, Austria
19 June 2026
Valcamonica, Italy
Earlier proposal
Ġgantija, Gozo, Malta, 2025
The initial proposal imagined a single soap bubble released once a minute inside the prehistoric megalithic temple of Ġgantija. The action was not realized in this form. The proposal later developed into the present structure of Fleeting Offering.
Related pages
Project: FLEETING OFFERING
Story & Archive: Traces of the Work