Galeria Posibilă announced the opening of the group exhibition Purity is not an option. The opening will take place on Thursday, May 9, starting at 18:00.

“… one possible answer is contamination. We are contaminated by the encounters we have; they change us as we make room for others. As contamination changes world-creating designs, reciprocal worlds—and new directions—can emerge. Everyone carries with them the story of contamination; purity is not an option. (“Mushroom at the End of the World”, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing)

Looking at contemporary art exhibitions in recent years, we often find research around the multitude of phenomena and ways in which we are invited to understand the world, parts of it, what is accessible to us and what each of us can encompass. On the other hand, having a recent preoccupation in discovering the subject for this exhibition, I went beyond the artistic discourse and found readings that invited me to discover this broad context – the Earth, the ecosystem, nature, the environment – ​​in an evolutionary but deep sense interconnected that we have taken as a background for outlining curatorial intent and selection of works. The exhibition is intended to be an outline of proposals, a mental map on which we each place our own perspectives alongside those proposed by artists.

Books like: “Living Planet. The Web of Life on Earth” (David Attenborough) or “Otherlands. A World in the Making” (Thomas Halliday) – I’m talking about a cyclicity, as something that has always existed, with a certain frequency not defined chronologically) of moments when almost(!) the whole planet suffers and loses species forever and then regenerates/generates others. In this context, the descriptions belong to worlds we cannot know immediately but through the traces they have left. The project “A Bestiary of the Anthropocene” (ed. Nicolas Nova & DISNOVATION.ORG), on the other hand, imagines a future bestiary, starting from contemporaneity, fossils left behind by humans (plastiglomerate, antenna tree, radioactive mushrooms).

Purity is not an option is a working scheme, to identify possible themes as each artist proposes them to us. We have chosen to bring together diverse themes – some deeply anchored in a present reality, others in a natural, biological context, and others looking towards the imaginary and fantastic or alternative realities. Halliday says of the community (in the context of nature) that it is “the census of organisms, from microbes to trees to giant herbivores—it is a temporary association of living things that depend on evolutionary history, climate, geography, and chance.”
Independently, each has its own needs and rhythms, but together, they become dependent on the context of the other, building a shared narrative and history. Put together, I want the works to become an organic, unfinished community, from the space of ideas back to the organicity of nature, contaminating in the mental map proposed for visiting.” (excerpt from the presentation text)

Artists: Alexandra Boaru, Ștefan Câltia, Mădălina Dan, Luca Florian, Gwen, Nicu Ilfoveanu, Hortensia Mi Kafchin, Olivia Mihălțianu, Dan Perjovschi, Gheandie Popescu, Miruna Radovici, Flaviu Rogojan, Mark Verlan and Vitaly Yankovy.

The exhibition can be visited until June 8 from Wednesday to Saturday between 17:00 and 21:00. The entry is free.

The exhibition “Purity is not an option” is part of the multiannual program, Intertwined Relationships. Contaminated Exchange, co-financed by the Cultural Administration of the National Fund.