Twenty personal geographies of summer, in “Splashhh”/ photo gallery
Summer, the memory of it, with the sea, the beach in black and white frames, with plastic rivers, dreams in oil on canvas or in complex and animated installations, the photography of seaweed washed ashore are some of the personal geographies of 20 artists who present their creations in “Splashhh”, show opened at Point events space.
”Splashhh” – Ovidiu Toader, ”River”, curatorial
To music selected by Vlad Nancă, the viewer enters a room where (paper) waves pour from the ceiling, amid interactive, video and sound installations and photographs.
”Splashhh” – Vlad Nancă, ”Souvenir”, curatorial
“The beach, place and symbol: an area of pleasures, escapes, metamorphoses, but also of cultural fictions. The beach, leisure theater par excellence, suspended between the natural and the spectacular. Every object, every body becomes a symbol floating in a language of inactivity,” says curator Medina Pop.
”Splashhh” – Roxana Ajder, ”Couples playing in the pool” și ”Friends”, curatorial
“Splashhh” evokes the rituals, freedoms and absurdities of summer, as a place of universal desire, of the natural-regulated spectacle, of a temporary utopia.
”Splashhh” – Ion Stătescu, ”Dream”, oil on canvas, curatorial
The exhibiting artists are Ana Avram, Ana Ionescu, Decebal Scriba, Gheorghe Rasovszky, Ion Stătescu, Iosif Király, Jan Švankmajer, Justin Orvis Steimer, Mara Verhoogt, Marilena Preda Sânc, Mihai Grecu, Nadina Stoica, Nona Inescu, Oana Cervinschi, Ovidiu Toader, Roxana Ajder, Saint Machine, Sergiu Chihaia, Sînziana Cadar, Vlad Nancă.
”Splashhh” – Sergiu Chihaia, ”Plastic Rivers”, curatorial
“Splashhh” is a recreational interrogation of what is hot and perishable time beyond seasonality – the performativity of beach objects, the politics of bodies exposed and viewed, the anxiety of counting the days and all that fades, ultimately, the strangeness of the summer personality that takes shape, then self-destructs, and the playlists that loop on repeat, to the limit of the irrational.
Photo credit: curatorial
