Unfoldings: Between The Constant And The Changing

Unfoldings: Between The Constant And The Changing Alina Andrei / Musz / Suzana Dan / Sasha Bandi / Radu Comșa / Alexandru Muraru / Alexandra Mocan The exhibition is part of a project that aims to focus on artists that can be defined, one way or another, as cultural operators. Whether curators, space or initiative coordinators, gallerists or theoreticians, we chose to consolidate a better understanding of those who reconcile two or multiple roles on the cultural and art scene, of those who often operate independently for the cultural community. In this exhibition, the first in a set of three, the artists were invited to recount one or several past moments that have significantly marked their profession – through objective and statistical points of view, as well as personal ones. The selected artists were challenged to look back and describe the art scene through a mirror-image of the cultural world and the transitions that both them and the world around them have been through and have processed over time. Therefore, we find in the current exhibition artworks that refer to changes, accumulations, restarts, recurrence or critical views on matters specific to the field, which cannot be improved solely through our own will, or artworks that reflect new ways of looking at things and, at the same time, the artist’s role of generating new ways of looking. Between the new wave of the so-called creative industries and increasingly corporate positions and attitudes towards advertising, new languages and manners of creating and thinking art are decrypted. The pressure originates from the continuous need for reinventing – which may vary from person to person and might include the way we conceive originality and the artistic act, but also the way we adapt originality to the conditions imposed by the cultural world or to contexts determined by various limitations. We wonder whether it is necessary to reconsider the ways of thinking outside the box, or how we might give up on past clichés and incorporate as best we can our vision and identity in what we have to say. If our vision and identity are limited by failure, lack of time, space, support or resources – can we choose to speak about it and continue being actual? What does being actual mean in the context of art, strongly influenced by all that has happened so far? How do we integrate the double profession into what we do and how do we speak about artistic work, especially when being an artist is something so unstable and fragile? How do we look at ourselves and how do we look at the art world in which we operate in retrospect? Cultural project co-financed by the National Cultural Fund Administration. 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 funding.