Eleonora Edreva & Leo Williams are artists whose solo and collaborative work spans the mediums of video, dramaturgy of scents, food, games, digital fabrication, and fiber; each seeking to explore the themes of waste, gender, food, technology, sensory education, and environmental catastrophe. Their work emerges as a response to confronting and feeling the dense and leaky weight of growing landfills, mass consumption, and unequal access to dwindling resources; which they address by calling into question myths of individualism and upholding the necessity of community-based resilience in the face of apocalypse. Their video and game design work has been shown in Chicago, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Copenhagen, and Seyðisfjörður, Iceland and now in Sofia, within the framework of Radar Sofia artistic residency. 

Leo Williams is from Miami, Florida, and studied art history and curatorial studies at the Art Institute of Chicago. He works as a digital fabrication specialist, and wants to use the principles of game design to emphasize and explore community building possibilities. In the past, he was the director and curator of an apartment gallery based in Chicago, IL, called “cornerstore”, focusing on experimental work by a range of emerging and mid-career artists. 

Eleonora Edreva is a Bulgaria-born, Chicago-raised artist, researcher, and sensory educator. The artist’s main creative partnerships currently include video and game design work with Leo Williams. She is a member of the Speculative Bodies Collective, which produces workshops positing alternative futures through the use of scent and fashion; and has co-founded CBORG (the Community-Based Olfactory Research Group), a Chicago-based roving research team, through which they participate in open-access research on the intersections of scent with art, science, technology, theatre, dramaturgy and politics.