Mihaela Moldovan: The Endless Thread of Hope
tranzit.ro/București and The Last Archive present:
Mihaela Moldovan: The Endless Thread of Hope
21 December 2024, 2-6 p.m.
A temporary intervention at the Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
Int. Primaverii no. 10, Silistea Snagovului village
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A ball of straws is wrapped in a lacery made from fragile but strong cord, bringing together the organic and modest material that forms the core of the work and the thread as a long-standing symbol of connectedness in the world and to the other layers of life. Situated in the field and interacting with the natural elements, the object becomes a small sun fallen on the ground, a glimmer of colour and hope during the short winter days. Gradually, surrounded by the growing vegetation in spring and baked by the real sun in summer, the ball of straws and string will become and belong to the earth, will disappear into the landscape which, for a short while, it had attempted to treat as an upside down sky.
Mihaela Moldovan (Vezentan) is an artist living in Bucharest and working with interlacing as a method and with colour as a sculptural form. She is creating textile objects that are at the same time malleable shapes, dressing up existing structures such as haystacks, or are elaborate nets, made of threads or ropes coming together to contain while also to allow for space of breath.
Since 2021 she is part of the artists community at Malmaison Studios in Bucharest.
The Last Archive is an artistic project initiated by artist Vlad Basalici and enacted together with curator Raluca Voinea as part of the programme of tranzit.ro/București. In 2012, Vlad Basalici collected newspapers printed on the 21st of December of that year, the last day before what should have been the Apocalypse presumably announced by the Maya civilization, with this event and the news published about it constituting the basis of The Last Archive.
Starting with 2013, a series of artists were invited to propose an exhibition reflecting on the material of this Archive. Péter Szabó, Monotremu, Giles Eldridge, Vilmos Koter, Kiki Mihuță, Maria Baroncea and Anca Bucur are the artists who enlarged the concept of The Last Archive, through the realisation of a project-exhibition, inaugurated each year on the 21st of December, in the space where tranzit.ro/ București activated between 2012-2019. The Last Archive project from 2020, 2012 Alphabet Book, took place in the virtual space and can be seen here: https://vimeo.com/manage/showcases/8902771/info. Since 2021, the project continues with interventions at the Station, having had as invited artists Adrian Ganea in 2021, Kristin Wenzel in 2022 and Nicoleta Moise in 2023.
If you have difficulties in organising your trip to the Station or other questions, let us know: vlad@vladbasalici.com.
