Lockout Stereotypes Exhibition. Counter-cliché presented for the first time in the WASP exhibition space in Bucharest, can be visited until July 25, 2023, in the Prahova County Art Museum “Ion Ionescu-Quintus”.
The exhibition includes works of art from various artistic mediums, from video installation, and photography, to sculptural, and textile design objects, and is started by the Art Media Events Studio association.
During the opening event, the citizens of Ploiesti had the opportunity to meet the artists and participate in a dialogue that the artworks cross: the social integration of Roma girls and women and the elimination of double discrimination: discrimination based on ethnic and gender criteria.
Lockout Stereotypes Exhibition. Counter-cliché brings together 6 artists from Romania and Norway whose practices and visual discourse aim to combat stereotypical mentalities and social segregation resulting from prejudices against Roma women, as well as other minority groups. Lockout Stereotypes. Counter-cliché explores issues of equity related to race, ethnicity, and gender, as well as multiculturalism, inclusion, and urban education.
The exhibition aims to widen the dialogue between the general public and Roma communities, to educate and form a safe and inclusive space for cultural expression.
Curated by Andreea Căpitănescu, the exhibition presents the creations of artists Denise Lobonț, Margaret Abeshu (Norway), Mihaela Drăgan & Zita Moldovan, Silvia Trăistaru and Mihaela Cîmpeanu.
Evoking the particularities of a neglected minority culture, suppressed by the constant need to reaffirm the adversity of malignant truisms, the exhibition emphasizes the belief that we are all the same.
Entry is free.
Lockout Stereotypes is a Romania-Norway cooperation project, coordinated by the Art Media Events Studio Association (Ploiesti), with the participation of the 4Culture Association (Bucharest) and the Fiksdal Dans Stiftelse Foundation (Oslo), which will take place between September 2022 and April 2024 in the cities of Ploiesti and Bucharest.
Producer: AMES Association – Art Media Events Studio
Partners: 4Culture Association, Fiksdal Dans Stiftelse, Prahova County Art Museum “Ion Ionescu-Quintus”
Educational partners: Technological High School of Services Sf. Apostol Andrei, Secondary School no. 19, Ploiesti.
Media partners: Radio Romania Cultural, Modernism, Zeppelin Magazine, ARTA Magazine, Feeder, IQads, Positive Romania
Local media partners: Radio Prahova, Observatorul Prahovean
The project is financed by the SEE Grants 2014-2021 within the RO-CULTURE Program. The value of the non-refundable funding (85% EEA Grant and 15% the national budget) is 977,013 lei (197,699.87 euros). The EEA grants represent the contribution of Iceland, the Principality of Liechtenstein and the Kingdom of Norway to the reduction of economic and social disparities in the European Economic Area and to the strengthening of bilateral relations with the 15 beneficiary states in Eastern and Southern Europe and the Baltic states.
