The second edition of the “Art and Anthropology” residency brings to the public at MNȚR a series of artworks and interdisciplinary research that explores the subtle and radical adaptations in the local community of Luncavița, Tulcea, located on the border between tradition and modernity.

If the exhibition “Here was once water” (MNȚR, September 2023) coagulated around the mental map of the pond, the second exhibition of artistic and anthropological research is under the sign of the glossary. The participants, familiar with the collective eco-nostalgia of the locals, now entered their personal micro-universes and sought to get closer to the rhythm that moves people every day. The fragments assembled in the exhibition discourse recover lost realities, states of place and current postures of coexistence between the locals and the surrounding world.
The Art and Anthropology Residency is an interdisciplinary project that familiarizes artists and anthropologists with the northern Dobrogea area. For the second year in a row, the former Danube flood zone, currently agricultural land, and the space around the town of Luncavița served as research and exploration ground for 12 artists and anthropologists. The results of their research can be seen in the Glossary exhibition, a residency that will be open from October 4-22, 2024, at the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant in the Aquarium Hall.

Art and Anthropology is an initiative by @laborator_artistic.

The Artistic Laboratory Association is a project that started in the spring of 2020 and aimed to become a viable partner for emerging artists by creating opportunities for exhibitions and, learning and experimentation through dialogue and mutual support. Until now, the association has organized exhibitions within the NAG 2020 edition, in the @stirbei47 space and @spațiul Dialog on the 4th floor of the MNAC; the exhibition “here was once a water” at the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant and started the Game Institute initiative whose first Summer School took place in July 2024 at Amzei Creative Corner with the support of The Institute.

“Art and Anthropology” is a project initiated by the Artistic Laboratory Association, co-financed by the National Cultural Fund Administration and realized with the support of SNSPA, the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant and Luncavița City Hall. The project does not necessarily represent the position of AFCN.