{"id":54687,"date":"2025-07-10T23:11:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T20:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/uncategorized-en\/twenty-personal-geographies-of-summer-in-splashhh-photo-gallery\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T23:11:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T20:11:05","slug":"twenty-personal-geographies-of-summer-in-splashhh-photo-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/en\/art\/twenty-personal-geographies-of-summer-in-splashhh-photo-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty personal geographies of summer, in &#8220;Splashhh&#8221;\/ photo gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;Splashhh&#8221;, show opened at Point events space.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_54396\" style=\"width: 1310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54396\" class=\"wp-image-54396 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Splashh-Ovidiu-Toader-River-mixed-media-sculpture.jpg\" alt=\"splashh, ovidiu toader, river, mixed media sculpture\" width=\"1300\" height=\"975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Splashh-Ovidiu-Toader-River-mixed-media-sculpture.jpg 1300w, https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Splashh-Ovidiu-Toader-River-mixed-media-sculpture-480x360.jpg 480w, https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Splashh-Ovidiu-Toader-River-mixed-media-sculpture-975x731.jpg 975w, https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Splashh-Ovidiu-Toader-River-mixed-media-sculpture-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-54396\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>\u201dSplashhh\u201d &#8211; Ovidiu Toader, \u201dRiver\u201d, curatorial<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>To music selected by Vlad Nanc\u0103, the viewer enters a room where (paper) waves pour from the ceiling, amid interactive, video and sound installations and photographs.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_54398\" style=\"width: 1310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54398\" class=\"wp-image-54398 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Splashhh2-Vlad-Nanca-Souvenir-2014.jpg\" alt=\"splashhh2, vlad nanca, souvenir, 2014\" width=\"1300\" height=\"975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Splashhh2-Vlad-Nanca-Souvenir-2014.jpg 1300w, https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Splashhh2-Vlad-Nanca-Souvenir-2014-480x360.jpg 480w, https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Splashhh2-Vlad-Nanca-Souvenir-2014-975x731.jpg 975w, https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Splashhh2-Vlad-Nanca-Souvenir-2014-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-54398\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>\u201dSplashhh\u201d &#8211; Vlad Nanc\u0103, \u201dSouvenir\u201d, curatorial<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; says curator Medina Pop.  <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_54400\" style=\"width: 1310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54400\" class=\"wp-image-54400 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Splashhh4-Roxana-Ajder-Cupluri-jucanduse-in-piscina-Prietenie.jpg\" alt=\"splashhh4, roxana ajder, cupluri jucanduse in piscina, prietenie\" width=\"1300\" height=\"975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Splashhh4-Roxana-Ajder-Cupluri-jucanduse-in-piscina-Prietenie.jpg 1300w, https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Splashhh4-Roxana-Ajder-Cupluri-jucanduse-in-piscina-Prietenie-480x360.jpg 480w, https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Splashhh4-Roxana-Ajder-Cupluri-jucanduse-in-piscina-Prietenie-975x731.jpg 975w, https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Splashhh4-Roxana-Ajder-Cupluri-jucanduse-in-piscina-Prietenie-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-54400\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>\u201dSplashhh\u201d &#8211; Roxana Ajder, \u201dCouples playing in the pool\u201d \u0219i \u201dFriends\u201d, curatorial<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Splashhh&#8221; evokes the rituals, freedoms and absurdities of summer, as a place of universal desire, of the natural-regulated spectacle, of a temporary utopia.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_54402\" style=\"width: 1310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54402\" class=\"wp-image-54402 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Splashhh6-Ion-Statescu-Visul-ulei-pe-panza.jpg\" alt=\"splashhh6, ion st\u0103tescu, visul, ulei pe panza\" width=\"1300\" height=\"975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Splashhh6-Ion-Statescu-Visul-ulei-pe-panza.jpg 1300w, https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Splashhh6-Ion-Statescu-Visul-ulei-pe-panza-480x360.jpg 480w, https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Splashhh6-Ion-Statescu-Visul-ulei-pe-panza-975x731.jpg 975w, https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Splashhh6-Ion-Statescu-Visul-ulei-pe-panza-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-54402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>\u201dSplashhh\u201d &#8211; Ion St\u0103tescu, \u201dDream\u201d, oil on canvas, curatorial<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The exhibiting artists are Ana Avram, Ana Ionescu, Decebal Scriba, Gheorghe Rasovszky, Ion St\u0103tescu, Iosif Kir\u00e1ly, Jan \u0160vankmajer, Justin Orvis Steimer, Mara Verhoogt, Marilena Preda S\u00e2nc, Mihai Grecu, Nadina Stoica, Nona Inescu, Oana Cervinschi, Ovidiu Toader, Roxana Ajder, Saint Machine, Sergiu Chihaia, S\u00eenziana Cadar, Vlad Nanc\u0103.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_54404\" style=\"width: 1310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54404\" class=\"wp-image-54404 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Splashhh10Sergiu-Chihaia-Rauri-de-plastic.jpg\" alt=\"splashhh10sergiu chihaia, rauri de plastic\" width=\"1300\" height=\"1733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Splashhh10Sergiu-Chihaia-Rauri-de-plastic.jpg 1300w, https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Splashhh10Sergiu-Chihaia-Rauri-de-plastic-270x360.jpg 270w, https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Splashhh10Sergiu-Chihaia-Rauri-de-plastic-548x731.jpg 548w, https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Splashhh10Sergiu-Chihaia-Rauri-de-plastic-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Splashhh10Sergiu-Chihaia-Rauri-de-plastic-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-54404\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>\u201dSplashhh\u201d &#8211; Sergiu Chihaia, \u201dPlastic Rivers\u201d, curatorial<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Splashhh&#8221; is a recreational interrogation of what is hot and perishable time beyond seasonality &#8211; 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.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo credit: curatorial<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":54395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6965],"tags":[7048,7076,7101,7591],"class_list":{"0":"post-54687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"tag-exhibition","9":"tag-installation","10":"tag-photo-en","11":"tag-point-en"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}