On Wednesday, December 3, between 6 and 9 PM, at /SAC Berthelot, during the closing event of the international group exhibition “Wet Snow”, two video works by artist Anne Imhof will be presented: “Youth” (2022) and “Fate” (2022).
“Wet Snow. Notes from Underground, Part 2” is, metaphorically, about the discomfort that completely overwhelms you, performatively, with your feet in wet snow, (it seems as if) you can’t get out of it. It is a disturbing reverie of the discomforts of the Present. With its geopolitical realities (genocidal wars, with disproportionate forces, against which we protest, but which seem impossible to stop, new or reactivated red lines). With economic policies that deepen crises and tensions. With an accelerated omni-destruction of ecosystems. And (last but not least) with our personal wrong choices. All of these in counterpoint to the personal/individual and planetary sensation/desire/need for eternalized youth (biological or not), with all its vulnerabilities.
Currents once thought to be underground and dormant have erupted volcanically and have become permanent, heavy omni-presences, glazed in ceramics. Winters with immaculate studio/white cube/black box-like snowfalls, springs with blossoms and accelerations, summers with beaches, spectacular places and festivals, autumns beginning with contemplation – all gone, far away, mere images that are not present but assimilated, embodied. Now, with feelings of solitude and dysfunctionality in-front-and-in-the-middle of the institution-system, both online and offline, fleetingly imagining fragments of other possible worlds-homes, you are/walk through the wet, cold, piercing snow, more awake/present/aware-of-the-moment than ever, of your own performance (with your feet in this cold, wet snow) that tends to cancel out (different) narratives and become Image. (Curatorial text)
Charles Moore & Alex Radu
Artists: Carlos Amorales, Simona Andrioletti, Andrius Arutiunian, Justin Baroncea & Cristian Matei, Yael Bartana, Anna Bedyńska, Gisela Colón, Nicolae Comănescu, Iulian Cristea, Suzana Dan, Dimitrie Luca Gora, Dumitru Gorzo, Rusudan Khizanishvili, Ayoung Kim, Miler Lagos, Charmaine Poh, Buket Savci, Bosco Sodi, Mircea Suciu, Philip Topolovac, Jorinde Voigt.
Address: /SAC Berthelot (str. Gen. H.M. Berthelot nr. 5, interfon 10). Free entrance.
The exhibition is organized by /SAC – The Space for Contemporary Art. We would like to thank the Italian Cultural Institute Bucharest for the support. Cultural project co-financed by Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The project does not necessarily represent the official position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN shall not be held liable for the project’s content or any use to which the project outcome might be put. These are the sole responsibility of the beneficiary of the funding.
