This paper explores the collaborative project ReForget Your Past, initiated in 2013 by Bulgarian photographer Nikola Mihov on the basis of his photographic series Forget Your Past (2012), an artistic study of Bulgaria’s monumental heritage from the socialist era.
In ReForget Your Past, Mihov invited more than thirty artists to reinterpret the representations of these monuments through their own practices, ranging from digital manipulations to interventions in public space.
Based on this case study, this article aims to examine the discourses generated by these artistic productions around monumental heritage, arguing that they can actively participate in shaping societal discussions on recent memory and its perception in the public sphere.