2010 | Asa cum ma doresti | As You Desire Me

6-29 august 2010

Participanti: Liliana Basarab, Biroul de Cercetari Melodramatice (Irina Gheorghe & Alina Popa), Florin Bobu, Andrada Catavei, Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkáčová, Hadassah Emmerich, Raluca Popa, Jelena Radić
Design: Eduard Constantin
Curatoare: Raluca Voinea

Expozitia Asa cum ma doresti aduce impreuna pentru vizitatorii Galeriei de Arta Contemporana a Muzeului Brukenthal o serie de lucrari care abordeaza, problematizeaza, ironizeaza imaginea construita sa raspunda unor asteptari previzibile si normative.
In fiecare zi ne construim, pozam, ne interpretam, ne atasam unii de altii pentru ca asa pare potrivit la un moment dat, doar ca sa uitam imediat ce acel moment a trecut, ne dedublam si ne reconstruim, in oglinda memoriei sau in cea pe care ne-o intind - binevoitori, desigur - ceilalti. Ne crestem apoi copiii cu aceleasi dorinte ca ale noastre, iar daca am esuat in a intruchipa acele dorinte in ceva, inca mai putem inventa un trecut pe care nu ni-l amintim sau care nu a existat niciodata.
Artistii prezentati in expozitie propun cateva pozitii conceptuale asupra economiei dorintei, sfidand predistributia rolurilor intr-o societate libidinala, ridiculizand dispensabilitatea corpurilor (oricarui corp), colectionand sau fictionalizand amintiri, inscenandu-se pe ei si reflectandu-ne pe noi.

Voi fi asa cum ma doresti, poate, daca vei crede in mine, sau mai bine zis daca vei fi pregatit sa accepti varianta despre mine pe care ti-o ofer.

Multumiri pentru sprijin catre: SCHAU ORT Zürich/ Christiane Büntgen, Liviana Dan, Madalin Geana, Anca Mihulet

The exhibition As You Desire Me brings together for the visitors of the Contemporary Art Gallery of Brukenthal Museum a series of works which approach is challenging and ironic to the image constructed to respond to predictable and normative expectations.
Everyday we build ourselves, we pose, perform ourselves, we connect to each other when it seems appropriate, only to forget that feeling of attachment as soon as the right moment has gone, we divide ourselves and then come back in one piece, in the mirror of memory or in that which the others - always benevolent - put in front of us. Later we raise our children with the same wishes as ours, and if we failed to embody those wishes, we can still invent a past which we don't remember or which never existed.
The artists presented in this exhibition propose a few conceptual positions on the economy of desire, defying the pre-distribution of roles in a libidinal society, mocking the dispensability of the body (of anybody), collecting or imagining memories, staging themselves and reflecting us.

I will be as you desire me, perhaps, only if you believe in me, or if you are prepared to accept that version of me which I am delivering you.

With the support of: SCHAU ORT Zürich/ Christiane Büntgen, Liviana Dan, Madalin Geana, Anca Mihulet

Yes (2010, photography, 70 x 50 cm)
Pause (2010, photography, 70 x 50 cm)
Declension (2010; photography, 70 x 50 cm)