On view from 19 June to 1 August at the Art Encounters Foundation in Timișoara, the group show feels like it stopped raining, curated by Diana Marincu and Mihai Toth, brought together works by Dan Cebotari, Ciprian Ciobanu, Anca Adina Cojocaru, Gloria Grati, Lucian Indrei, Mirela Ivanciu, Raluca Micula, musz, Imminent detour, and Szabó Anna-Mária in an approach that explored subtle forms of affective transformation and perception.
“The exhibition “feels like it stopped raining” offers an encounter with those moments that are hard to define but deeply familiar, in which a state of being slowly shifts, and the world seems to realign itself around it. The artists invite us to approach these forms of sensitivity and to dwell, if only for a moment, in their suspended space, marked by the poetics of the ephemeral and Duchamp’s idea of the “infra-mince”: the shadows cast, the warmth of the chair where someone sat before you, the reflection in the mirror, the distance between the sound of the fired bullet and the hole it makes, the mist of steam on the surface of objects, the sound of velvet pants as you walk.
Without proposing a singular theme or a linear narrative, the exhibition “listens” to those almost imperceptible transformations that occur when something changes within us. Through subtle gestures, sensitive materials, and images laden with memory, the ten artists construct a space of fluid observation, in which fragility does not appear as a weakness, but as a form of resistance. Each work functions as a trace of an experience or as a fragment that does not seek to explain fully, but rather to leave room for intuition, projection, and recognition.
The invited artists came together naturally, as if drawn together by a shared sensibility that allows them to communicate on the same wavelength and to establish a sense of discretion and naturalness through which art becomes part of life—and vice versa. Their gestures, sometimes imperceptible, pierce the visible layer of existence, seeking that thread of personal authenticity through which art flickers endlessly, regardless of how what we call “stage,” “context,” “practice,” and “career” appear.” (curatorial text)
