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The exhibition Fabulating About a Gelato Machine presents newly commissioned works by Alexandra Boaru, Adrian Cojocaru, Alexandru Daniel Florea, Denis Flueraru, Iulia Jugaru, Mălina Moncea, Irina Motroc, Diana Roșca, Ioana Rusu, and Anca Țintea. The idea started from the specific memory of a place you don’t remember seeing, as if a foggy dream stopped you from recalling when or where it happened. The feeling of familiarity often comes from recognizing emotions or patterns that occurred before, inducing a sense of nostalgia.
We are looking for the anchors of these feelings in the reality we live in order to see what triggers the remembrances how we can unwrap the story behind the pattern, and how the whole process was developed. These memories make us vulnerable in front of our unconsciousness and we still try to keep them under control while being comforted by the overwhelming feeling that we cannot pin a moment down. This loop of wistfulness and fear surrounds us like a fantasy creating a new series of recollections.
We started the exhibition by keeping in mind the book Slices of Life by Elia Romanelli, Piero Vereni, and Ottavia Castellina. All the exhibiting artists described a personal preference or a detail of their lives that had an impact on their artistic practice, either in its development or in the choice of the studied subjects. The works vary from a statistical viewpoint on living to a particular understanding of life and how one is perceived.
When analyzing artistic practices we tend to recognize a series of “obsessions”, repetitive elements that need further investigation through the artists’ work. In this way, they develop certain interests that shape their methods. The exhibition Fabulating About a Gelato Machine aims to present a glimpse of these interests in a common and mediated way.
Exhibition text written by Georgia Tioderscu