– – povești balcanico-fantastice – –
link to the press release > here <
excerpt from the curatorial text:
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“radu mihai-tănasă creates balkan-fiction stories, not just through text and image, but also through an incursion into balkan identity and tradition, seen through a critical filter. the artist proposed an interdisciplinary methodology based on video, performance, drawing and music. he talks about the balkan fantastic and the cultural dysphoria felt abroad through immersive media installations that function as portals to parallel worlds. in these fragments, both visitors and artists are invited to imagine a world beyond the limitations drawn by cultural identity biases and to explore their own version of how they have assimilated this identity into their own personality.”
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in this exhibition you are invited to explore the stories of 6 characters through an interdisciplinary journey to worlds forgotten by time and almost surreal situations. each character was created from the research i did on cultural dysphoria, specifically drawing on bogdan ștefănescu’s research related to the differences and similarities between post-colonialism and post-communism. besides that, i was inspired by slightly stereotypical cultural trends from different periods of romania: pre-christianity, the communist period and the 2000s.
the exhibition is also populated by a few sculptures made/modified by me to give a little touch of immersion to the present works.
– – povești balcanico-fantastice: disforie culturală – –
a satellite project done in collaboration with apartament 6, balkan-fiction stories: cultural dysphoria was a pop-up screening event done in the gallery to give a platform for other balkan artists to talk about the subject matter while activating the exhibitional space
participating artists include:
ana-maria cojocaru
ibrahim kurt
mihai aureliu savin
ioana mihai
blxsh deaddy
maria mălcică
mircea mondreanu
ana nedeljkovic & nikola majdak jr.
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