Temps d’Images 2013 Solidarity
Temps d’Images 2013 Solidarity
An Immaterial Retrospective Of The Venice Art Biennale
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The project takes the entire history of the Venice Art Biennale as a departure point and reflects it in a national pavilion. The retrospective is an ephemeral but bold monument to the biennale, a critique of its display of power or conservatism but also a celebration of its openness for experiments. The public’s memory is invoked to be revealed in its constructed nature, to question who is reminding us what and by which means. The performers are present in the Romanian pavilion for the duration of the biennale, they are there alive, in tension to one another, exposed to or in dialogue with the public. A retrospective is a grandiose enterprise, but in this case, by reproducing hundreds of art works with the means of only a few human bodies, the project changes the scale of what a retrospective can be and of the biennial itself.
This project was selected to represent Romania at the 2013 Venice Biennale.
Alexandra Pirici is a Bucharest-based artist who attempts to work undisciplined, across different mediums, from performance to visual art and public space intervention.
Manuel Pelmuș, one of the most prominent representatives of the Romanian contemporary dance in an international context, works in Bucharest and Oslo. He founded the Cultural Home in 2011, in Bucharest, in collaboration with Abel Brynjar Bandlien and Farid Fairuz. He received in 2012 the Berlin Art Prize for Performing Arts offered by Akademie der Künste Berlin.
