The international group exhibition “Wet Snow”, curated by Charles Moore and Alex Radu, from /SAC Berthelot, is open to the public until November 30, 2025.
Artists: Carlos Amorales, Simona Andrioletti, Andrius Arutiunian, Justin Baroncea & Cristian Matei, Yael Bartana, Anna Bedyńska, Gisela Colón, Nicolae Comănescu, Iulian Cristea, Suzana Dan, Dimitrie Luca Gora, Dumitru Gorzo, Rusudan Khizanishvili, Ayoung Kim, Miler Lagos, Charmaine Poh, Jamea Richmond-Edwards, Buket Savci, Bosco Sodi, Mircea Suciu, Philip Topolovac, Jorinde Voigt
“Wet Snow” is the second part of the group exhibition “Notes from Underground” and the last part of the exhibition series “The Thin Thread Line” that marked the exhibition program at /SAC Malmaison and /SAC Berthelot in 2025, a subjective and collective exploration (connotatively unfolded-overlapped over an electoral and political calendar, both local and international) of our reactions in-front-and-in-the-middle of this increasingly tense period, when the way democracies and (common) values appear like in society is being de/re-constructed/defined. And of what we are still able to do, as actors on the stages-worlds of the arts (artists, curators, etc.) with our illusory/relative power to “change the world through art.”
“Wet Snow. Notes from Underground, Part 2” is, metaphorically, about the discomfort that completely overwhelms you, performatively, with your feet in wet snow, (it seems as if) you can’t get out of it. It is a disturbing reverie of the discomforts of the Present. With its geopolitical realities (genocidal wars, with disproportionate forces, against which we protest, but which seem impossible to stop, new or reactivated red lines). With economic policies that deepen crises and tensions. With an accelerated omni-destruction of ecosystems. And (last but not least) with our personal wrong choices. All of these in counterpoint to the personal/individual and planetary sensation/desire/need for eternalized youth (biological or not), with all its vulnerabilities. Currents once thought to be underground and dormant have erupted volcanically and have become permanent, heavy omni-presences, glazed in ceramics. Winters with immaculate studio/white cube/black box-like snowfalls, springs with blossoms and accelerations, summers with beaches, spectacular places and festivals, autumns beginning with contemplation – all gone, far away, mere images that are not present but assimilated, embodied. Now, with feelings of solitude and dysfunctionality in-front-and-in-the-middle of the institution-system, both online and offline, fleetingly imagining fragments of other possible worlds-homes, you are/walk through the wet, cold, piercing snow, more awake/present/aware-of-the-moment than ever, of your own performance (with your feet in this cold, wet snow) that tends to cancel out (different) narratives and become Image.” – Alex Radu
“This exhibition is not a quiet meditation, but a rupture. A visceral reckoning with the fragility of our illusions and the brutality of their collapse. The works are raw, unflinching, sometimes violent in their insistence. In them, with materials and subjects that toil with a sense of permanence, questions arise. In each flicker of neon and stroke of the paintbrush, we ask ourselves: are we witnessing an ending, the disintegration of the narratives we have clung to, or the tentative beginnings of something unformed? Like snow that both buries and dissolves, the images and forms insist on ambiguity, on the coexistence of ruin and possibility.” – Charles Moore
Following the opening, the exhibition can be visited at /SAC Berthelot (Berthelot no. 5, ring at 10) until November 30, from Thursday to Saturday, 4PM-8PM.
Graphic/exhibition design: Justin Baroncea, Maria Ghement & Alexandra Müller.
The exhibition is organized by /SAC – The Space for Contemporary Art. We would like to thank the Italian Cultural Institute Bucharest for the support. Cultural project co-financed by Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The project does not necessarily represent the official position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN shall not be held liable for the project’s content or any use to which the project outcome might be put. These are the sole responsibility of the beneficiary of the funding.
