Sac inghitit de propriul continut /Bag swallowed by its own content
Cercul magic al productiei /The Magic Circle of Production

Sac inghitit de propriul continut /Bag swallowed by its own content, installation, Ivan Gallery, Bucuresti, 2021
We intended to cancel the difference between container and content - the image of the cement bag and the material construction of the world of things - signifier and signified; the container, the cement bag, becomes in our work contained, it is consumed, swallowed by concrete, by the formless. Humanity’s effort towards delineating, creating, rationally giving shape to the world of things becomes the mode through which it falls prey to the devouring action of matter.

Cercul magic al productiei /The Magic Circle of Production, collage, Ivan Gallery, Bucuresti, 2021
The series of collages refers to the problem of the sacredness of production (Elias Canetti), which somewhat transcends the cursed cyclicality of production and consumption, as well as the political ideologies on which the economical patterns are structured, beyond the illusion of continuous economical growth prophesied by the linear economy or the ethics of enclosed loops conceived by the new models of circular economy. The cement bag subtended by the circle proposes a critical reflection on the magic circle of production, productivity and producers (Maurizzio Lazzarato); the metaphor of the bag inscribed in the circle self-reflectively addresses the condition of the artist as producer, economically understood and valued as human capital.

'In Beloved Bucharest' exhibition view (Florina Coulin, Mona Vatamanu and Florin Tudor), Ivan Gallery, Bucuresti, 2021





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