Dessislava Dimova and Pierre Bismuth Photo: David Velasco www.artforum.com/diary

Her work focuses on the possibility of the social existence and recognition of the artist without offering any art production as such. Dessislava Dimova is a PhD fellow at the Institute of Art Studies in Sofia with a thesis on Bulgarian art after 1989. She has published numerous essays on contemporary art and culture, including The Cultural Learnings of Ivan Moudov, catalogue of the Bulgarian Pavilion at the Venice Biennial, 2007; Supernaturalism in Postcommunist Bulgaria, The Weird but True Book, 2005. She is currently curating The Spam Show, an email project that risks to be never seen, discarded by spam filters.