What is a woman?

“What is a woman? She is not a multicooker, not a kitchen robot. She is the possibility of reproduction. One becomes a woman through the maturation of the cycle. It does not happen through washing the first dishes or cooking the first beans. It happens precisely through the sexual. It is only through the sexual that we manage to reach the essence of the woman. As a pronounced womanizer, Veselin Borishev is intensely curious about the female body. Stepping outside the boundaries of the norm of what a woman is, he sets those new frames in which to perceive her. In a naively voyeuristic way, looking through the ‘peephole’ of his lens, he suggests that we can see women in different roles and positions. And each woman has her frame. The photography of Veselin Borishev is a projection of the external world; it is interiorization - introduced from the outside in. He has not captured something purely laboratory; he has captured the living world. Veselin Borishev does not seek to project himself into society but does merely the opposite – he reveals his missing, the feminine. And healthily, he pays attention to what is beyond him without saying to himself, ‘I am up to here, and after that is the woman.’ He curiously continues from where others have stopped and wants to see what is around the corner. It is characteristic of a small child to cut the ball to see what bounces inside, to break the toy to see who drives the car. This curiosity of his towards Eros, bordering on naivety, has homogeneously merged with a mature presence, capable of empowering the woman to be erotic.”

Mladen Vladimirov, psychologist