stills from Un zid de neocolit / An inevitable wall recorded performance
Un zid de neocolit / An inevitable wall, installation and performance, 2021
To be more site-specific
Ana Avram / Roberta Curcă / Alexandra Freye / Wei Kang Beh / Sibi Bogdan Teodorescu
29.06 – 20.07. 2021
The
current exhibition is the result of our previous call for proposals
launched in April this year which was aiming to find works that fit the
idea of space*, dimension/s, and site-specificness - proposed and
produced for the purpose of this show. We invited worldwide artists to
reflect on this theme without any borders, and so our shortlist gathers a
selection of artists who either proposed something tailored to our
space and its future-past-present, or works that reflect in more
general/personal terms the theme and explore the idea of space even
outside its physical boundaries.
Limits
are pushed and questioned under some aspects of understanding our
surroundings in the context of this show. All in all, the space, and
site-specificness could be about our ways of perceiving the reality –
the history we connect with, or about the fictions we develop around it.
It is about conventional ways of seeing an artspace and knocking off
the comfort of a room in order to prove a point on our habits. The space
is negotiated and explored here through materials, language, light, or
sound in works that prove that it exists even behind the objects that
communicate it. Space could be reflected as a medium of giving form to
things, or as a storage medium for things that aim to preserve history,
and maybe, our emotional connections linked to it. Once staging a space,
you can deliver an entire journey to the viewer, and here, the journey
that is proposed, balances itself between void and memory, between
object and meaning, between what is left and what it will be, time and
awareness, degeneration and restoration - through endless
interrogations.
*space
as context, space as reflection, space as possibility, space as memory,
space: material or virtual (?), space in relationship with content,
space as a medium for projection, space as condition, space as shape,
space as a manifest, space as environment, space as a thought-extension
