Research for tomorrow. Video-dioramas

March 23 – April 20, 2023
Rezidența 9
Vila Rodizio, Strada Ion Luca Caragiale 32, Bucharest 030167

Collateral exhibition of One World Film Festival 2023.

Artists: Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan, Vanessa Gravenor, Gabriella Hirst, Sonja Hornung & Danielle Tognozzi, Nicoleta Moise, Sebastian Moldovan, Ania Nowak, Maryam Tafakory, Meghna Singh & Simon Wood.

“Dioramas are understanding machines […] slices of time from the social organisms that created them.” (Donna Haraway, Teddy Bear Patriarchy, 1984)

The exhibition Research for Tomorrow. Video-dioramas is a time-sensitive presentation of works and installations that employ documentary methodologies in order to question and respond to a series of issues raised by the legacy left by past generations to new generations (politically, economically, colonially, ecologically, etc.). From the bodies rendered invisible on which the capitalist economy rests to the ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) formats that threaten global economic stability, from the privacy by proxy displayed on Iranian television to the landscape of a river confronted with its contemporary droughty version, from the symbiotic existence of a network of mycelial networks surviving in ruins to educational duck and cover cartoons for nuclear war preparations, from the group of women behind the most famous Romanian monumental work of art to the multiple forms through which a broken heart can take control of the body and the path of healing a wounded wing ….

In the labyrinthic space of Rezidența 9, each work cuts a slice through the cake of time in order to balance the precarity of imagining a collective tomorrow, in the context of the overproduction and maximisation of a profoundly individualistic today.

Full curatorial text, works descriptions and bios.

 

Project produced by White Wave, co-financed by the National Cultural Fund Administration (AFCN) and the Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR), with further support from Goethe-Institut, French Institute, Polish Institute, ARAC, Vag.on, VRStudio.ro, DiscoNotBisco.

Photo credit: Răzvan Năstase