The group exhibition “The Thin Thread Line”, curated by Alex Radu and Thomas Zitzwitz, brings together works by 29 Romanian and international artists, in a scenography created by Justin Baroncea, Maria Ghement and Alexandra Müller.
Artists: Justin Baroncea & Cristian Matei, Marie Bovo, Nicolae Comănescu, Iulian Cristea, Călin Dan, Suzana Dan, Elger Esser, Maria Ghement & Alexandra Müller, Dimitrie Luca Gora, Gregor Hildebrandt, Ana Ionescu, Alicja Kwade, Julian Lennon, Ana Ion Leonte, Dragoș Lumpan, Hortensia Mi Kafchin, Ruxandra Nițescu, Marcel Odenbach, Marlon Red, Haleh Redjaian, Mircea Suciu, Virginia Toma, Dominika Trapp, Marco Verhoogt, Jorinde Voigt, Nives Widauer, Thomas Zitzwitz.
“The Thin Thread Line can be the firm, tried line that separates us, or the fragile line that unites us. The one delimiting themes or drawing intersections to be explored. The (frail) thread that sometimes keeps us alive, onto which we sometimes cling with hope. The line we keep following day after day with the desire/need for coherence, for personal integrity. It could be the thread that curates our differentiations, our individualization, or the vulnerable thread that (re)places(/aligns) us into a continuity, into compositions. The hypercomplex, visible and/or invisible cobwebs that interconnect us. The line of a common horizon. Or the line as a representation.
“The Thin Thread Line” comments, in contrast, on the brutal red line of today’s dictators who draw-invade (outside of their own borders) territories of influence. And how lists of enemies, of forbidden words/books and attitudes, of restricted rights are drawn up.
The title also hints at Terrence Malick’s (Tarkovskian) film “The Thin Red Line” and at the labyrinth of human consciousness, made of thoughts and experiences amidst the maze of grass, blood, bullets, clouds, sweat and fear on the intense battlefield set on a tropical island – Guadalcanal, among the Solomon Islands, in the Pacific Ocean, which became a theater of operations between the North Americans and the Japanese during World War II.
“The Thin Thread Line” is part of a series of interconnected exhibitions organized by /SAC in 2025, attempting to be a subjective and collective foray about our very reactions (including the entire range of emotions and thoughts, and their respective externalizations) and what we, as individuals, can do in-front-and-in-the-middle of this increasingly troubling period, when the way in which democracies and (common) values look like is being de/re-constructed/defined. What we, as actors on the artworlds’ stages (artists, curators, etc.), can do with our relative “power of changing the world through art”, without letting it become propaganda. But can art (and the exhibition) become an instrument for fighting against manipulation and populist propaganda? A vaccine? An antidote? For whom?” (curatorial text)
“The Thin Thread Line” continues a curatorial endeavor that began with the exhibition “Individual All-Around” organized by /SAC in Timișoara – European Capital of Culture 2023.
The exhibition can be visited at /SAC Berthelot (Gen. H.M. Berthelot 5) from Thursday to Saturday, until August 8, 2025, from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM.
