Eddlesea. Il tempo metabolico
Schedule
Thu Sep 19 2024 at 07:00 pm
Location
Popa Petre 6, 020804 Bucharest, Romania | Bucharest, BU
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19 September - 19 OctoberWed - Sat, 4 - 8PM
Alexandra Boaru, Bea Bonafini, Lena Kuzmich, Flaminia Veronesi
✧ Galeria Posibilă, Bucharest
Mali Weil
✧ Italian Cultural Institute, Bucharest
“In the Eddlesian Era - 420 years after the collapse of the Capitalocene - the living and the dead share the same need to construct reality through dreaming. Thanks to seeds buried long ago by thinkers, creatives and pioneers, previously unimaginable futures are taking shape.
New paradigms and new global orders have been defined; a creationist energy has emerged from the manacles of patriarchy; the masculine and feminine, once separated, now coexist in the post-gendered being; hierarchical dominance has become biopolitical, and bodies, like minds, are a resonant whole between biotic and abiotic forces.
The result of a collaboration between the Italian Cultural Institute and Galeria Posibilă in Bucharest, Eddlesea. Il tempo metabolico is an exhibition project that will take place in two places and that will take shape thanks to the research of artistsx based in Italy, Romania and other countries.
Conceived as a journey into a newborn universe, the exhibition pays homage to creativity as an exercise of fundamental importance for drawing the boundaries of a new sense of beginning.
Based on a speculative and sometimes science fictional narrative, the project evokes an imaginary reality and a post-human scenario alternative to the one we have produced; beyond the capitalist realism that prevents us from meditating on the world we live in, wishing it different, wishing to be different ourselves”.
- Andre Lerda, curator
✭✶ Alexandra Boaru is a multi-media artist based in Romania. Her practice challenges the concept of “human” and its impact on the exterior, others or herself. One of the main themes seen throughout her artworks is the exploration of boundaries between being human and becoming something else. Her approach can often be described as poetic, influenced by speculative fiction or magic realism literary genre and the '70s conceptualism.
https://www.alexandraboaru.com
✧✵ Bea Bonafini is an interdisciplinary artist based between London and Barcelona. Through painting, tapestry, ceramics and drawing, she delves into the intersection of humanity with other forms of existence. Her interests are in the cyclical nature of materials and symbols as well as the revival of cross-cultural mythologies and their contemporary and personal reconfigurations. Bonafini’s works act as transcendental openings, presenting swirling, fragmented and multi-layered scenarios that are both optimistic and tender. Strongly influenced by archaeology and literature, her work celebrates new and unexpected combinations and juxtapositions, where boundaries and identities co-exist and fuse.
https://www.beabonafini.com/
✫✺ Lena Kuzmich (they/no pronouns) is a multidisciplinary artist from Vienna, currently based in Amsterdam. Their work, a fluid remix of photographic and videographic fragments taken from pop and subcultures, stitches together stories. Imaginative landscapes, composite depictions of bodies, and technology all become a portal beyond preconceived notions about the world and our identity in it. As co-founder of the collective Transformative Narratives, Lena initiates audio-visual performances focused on sympoietic world-building and radical care. In their practice, they strive for cross-disciplinary approaches by exploring multi-species worlds, thereby relearning how more-than-human life expands our perception of identity and community.
www.lenakuzmich.world
❊✸ Flaminia Veronesi lives and works in Milan. She attended the Foundation Course at Central Saint Martins (2006) and earned a BA in Fine Arts from Chelsea University of Arts and Design (2009). Veronesi explores the fantastic and the marvelous through a ludic approach to artistic practice, creating heterogeneous works with media and materials that are free from hierarchies. She ranges from textile works, sculptures in polymer clay, ceramics to pencil drawings, paintings, watercolors, glass engravings, and installations.
https://www.flaminiaveronesi.com/
❃✦ It is impossible to define Mali Weil's practice looking at it from a single standpoint or discipline, because it seeks explicitly to be hybrid, complex and productive. Based upon a performative practice, Mali Weil's aim is to activate processes which can be inserted into the audience's personal, physical, experiential, cultural and ultimately political imagination. Those processes, which are better defined as human specific than site specific, aim to create tension between the individual and the habitual ways of thinking, inviting to build new imaginaries and dissident genealogies, questioning the plurality of positions the individual performs within the society. Mali Weil is the collective identity of Elisa Di Liberato, Lorenzo Facchinelli and Mara Ferrieri.
https://www.maliweil.org/
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The exhibition Eddlesea. Il tempo metabolico is part of the multi-year programme Intertwined Relationships. Contaminated Exchanges, proposed by Galeria Posibilă in 2024 - 2025. The programme is co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund and supported by the Globalworth Foundation (partner of the 2024 editorial programme).
The exhibition Eddlesea. Il tempo metabolico is realised with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute.
The exhibition is being organized in collaboration with the Simondi Gallery, Renate Gallery.
Special thanks to COEX and Chioccarello SRL for the input of Simona Pesaro and Lucia Curioni.
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.
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Where is it happening?
Popa Petre 6, 020804 Bucharest, Romania, Strada Popa Petre 6, 020804 București, România,Bucharest, RomaniaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
