Adina Mocanu presents Being Nina, a multi-layered exhibition reflecting the artist’s long-term research of alternate universes, the otherworldly or on The Other as a an artistic tool, and which unfolds as a site-specific installation branching out from the namesake multi-channel video work in the MNAC collection.
“My name is Nina. Some of you may know me as ‘the telekinetic housewife from Russia’, while most of you don’t know me or my story at all.I am supposedly dead, and according to the calendar, I was quite old when I died. Well, that didn’t happen, and I will tell you why.”
Centred around a fictional performative character—overlapping the identities of a Russian housewife with telekinetic powers (Nina Kulagina) famous during the Cold War, and of a contemporary version of her still living in Adina’s native Romanian village—this piece of magical realism is a bidirectional process of exploring the outside world and the (artistic) personal identity.
The exhibition, curated by Sandra Demetrescu, can be visited on the fourth floor of the museum until November 10, 2024.
Credit image cover photo: Serioja Bocsok
Source: mnac.ro
