Diptych Art Space presents on Wednesday, November 2nd, “Windows of Future Memories”, the personal exhibition of the artist Ingrid Ene, curated by Cristina Stoenescu. Ingrid Ene will visually perform the sound works recorded during the “Artists Play With Time” project, in a cross-media dialogue. The event also marks the launch of the artistsplaywithtime. ro platform.

Earlier this year, the artist imagined an installation of old watches connected by a network of audio cables and microphones, creating a new instrument so that the ticking of the clocks could be modulated independently or in connection with other musical instruments or by voice. Starting from this installation, the artists from Cluj – Napoca, Oradea, Bucharest, and the residencies: Sounds like a book and Residency 21, responded to the open invitation to participate to make their compositions. The recordings made will be able to be listened to on the project website, the online platform www.artistplaywithtime.ro

“Windows of future memory” is in this sense the result of a common process, initiated by Ingrid Ene, which starts from an individualized and vulnerable core. As a child, a wrapped spring clock filled the silence in the silent nights when adults took care of the elderly, where three generations lived under the same roof, and for which the sound of a ticking clock drew different forms of time. Ingrid Ene opens this memory to other artists, turning it into an experience shared by each in our childhoods, of those of the same generation and social context in which the close family time had three ages.

The works presented in the exhibition invite the viewer to reflect on how the past influences our reactions in the present and the future. Images from the works of photography and video installation are part of the artist’s archive, intuiting how nostalgia connects personal biography with collective biographies, as Svetlana Boym theorizes in her book, “The future of nostalgia”. Ingrid Ene renders this approach in a dialogue with the invited artists, by visually associating the photo with the sound compositions created throughout the project.

The process set in motion by the artist thus returns through “Windows of future past” back to her, to images revealing urban spaces, open, closed, details suspended at the edge of memories in close connection with the recorded soundtracks. From this perspective, both digitally, and through the platform artistsplaywithtime. ro and physical, and acoustically visual, a horizon opens up to recognizable outer and inner spaces, from a vision of our common past and our future nostalgia. The stairwell, a detail of shadows, the details of a car covered by snow in memories that we can no longer recover properly separately, but as the whole project suggests, in the end, only together.

The #artistsplaywithtime project took place in 3 cities in Romania: Cluj-Napoca, Oradea, and Bucharest through partners: MATCA artspace, Quark Gallery, and Goodbye Gallery.
The installation was also present in two sound residencies: Sounds like a book and Residency21.

𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀: Cristian-Emanuel Opriș, Maatus Pealler, Alex Stingu, Mieresch, Mujko, Druiduu, Dolores Mondo Stash, Jasmina Al-Qaisi, SCREW, Miron Ghiu, ardb, Florence Hammer, dyslex, Lautremoi, Andrei Raicu & Bogdana Dima, Jotunn
𝗝𝗮𝗺 𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗮 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸: Alexandru Mihai Budeș, Nadine Weber, Roxana Morar, Guillaume Bihan, Vitaliy Yankovii, Miruna Radovici
𝗝𝗮𝗺 𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝘇𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻ț𝗮 𝟮𝟭: Paul Dunca/Paula Dunker, Alex Bălă, Chlorys, +SHE+, Suce Fraga, Sofia Zadar

Partner: Diptych Art Space
Media partners: Revista Arta, The Attic, Black Rhino Radio
Graphic design: Sorina Popescu
Website: Virgil Bugnariu
Sound mastering and Recording: Caesar Cîmpeanu, Marcel Floruţ, Andrei Raicu
Video recording: Alexandra Mocan, David-Aron Indig, Tudor Popa
Video editing: Alex Ţibu
Sponsored by: Jelna Winery

“Artists play with time” is a project co-financed by AFCN and does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or how the project results can be used. They are entirely the responsibility of the beneficiary of the funding.