With Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan, Vanessa Gravenor, Gabriella Hirst, Sonja Hornung & Danielle Tognozzi, Nicoleta Moise, Sebastian Moldovan, Ania Nowak, Maryam Tafakory, Meghna Singh & Simon Wood. Curated by Larisa Crunțeanu.
"Dioramas are understanding machines [...] slices of time from the social organisms that created them." (Donna Haraway, Teddy Bear Patriarchy, 1984)
The exhibition Research for Tomorrow. Video-dioramas is a time-sensitive presentation of works and installations that employ documentary methodologies in order to question and respond to a series of issues raised by the legacy left by past generations to new generations (politically, economically, colonially, ecologically, etc.). From the bodies rendered invisible on which the capitalist economy rests to the ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) formats that threaten global economic stability, from the privacy by proxy displayed on Iranian television to the landscape of a river confronted with its contemporary droughty version, from the symbiotic existence of a network of mycelial networks surviving in ruins to educational duck and cover cartoons for nuclear war preparations, from the group of women behind the most famous Romanian monumental work of art to the multiple forms through which a broken heart can take control of the body and the path of healing a wounded wing …. In the labyrinthic space of Rezidența 9, each work cuts a slice of the cake of time to balance the precarity of imagining a collective tomorrow, in the context of the overproduction and maximisation of a profoundly individualistic today.
Opening: March 28th, 19.00-22.00
Visiting:
March 29th - April 20th, 2023
Tuesday-Friday: 16:00 - 20:00
Saturday - Sunday: 13:00 - 20:00
Project implemented by White Wave, co-financed by the National Cultural Fund Administration (AFCN)*.
Project realised with the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR), with further support from Goethe-Institut, French Institute, Polish Institute, ARAC, Vag.on, VRStudio.ro, DiscoNotBisco.
*The project does not necessarily represent the position of the National Cultural Fund Administration. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or how the results of the project may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the beneficiary of the financing."
