The exhibition brings together video documentations of performances by artists Anca Benera and Arnold Estefan, on the one hand, and Alexandra Pirici together with a group of performers, on the other. Both works have been produced in 2011 and stage moments of encounter between the artists and Romania’s history. In Pacta sunt servanda, Anca Benera and Arnold Estefan read simultaneously, in Romanian and Hungarian, one in front of each other, from their respective history schoolbooks, passages treating the same moments, but offering contradictory perspectives. Dacă voi nu ne vreţi, noi vă vrem [If you don’t want us, we want you], the work of Alexandra Pirici represents different enactments of living sculptures, confronting public heroic monuments and buildings in Bucharest, such as the controversially rebuilt equestrian statue of Carol I, the monument of the 1989 Revolution or the House of the People.

The artists embody the awkward reflexion of a past that is all too questionable despite its apparent immutability, with well-rooted and imposing effects on the present. In the uneven relationship between their voices or bodies and the written word, the stone or the bronze, they manage to cast doubt upon their objects of reference, to reveal them as the real ghosts.