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Cinema Muzeul Țăranului -
Sunday, March 20, 2016 - 17:00
International Premiere
An intimate self-reflective journey, At the Mirror signed by Larisa Crunțeanu, seductively portrays the rite of passage into adulthood. A girl – performed by the artist – watches herself (us) into the mirror (camera lens). While she combs her hair, she whispers absent-mindedly a (self-referential) song about a girl (in front of a mirror) who discovers herself in her budding womanhood. Gracefully capturing the tension between innocence and sensuality, the performative body radiates the excitement and anxiety, the confusion and rebellion, the longing and solitude of becoming a woman. Beyond this, At the Mirror works further on a meta-level, as its every new screening is a recording of the previous projection. As the artist notes: This is a work which disappears with every projection. Just like memories, in the end the image disappears, leaving behind a fiction resembling the original story. Impressive in its simplicity, conceptual rigor and depth, At the Mirror becomes a sensorial discourse on time, on memory's frailty and the inevitability of change. (Adina Pintilie, BIEFF)
Director:
Larisa Crunțeanu has studied Photography and Moving Image and is currently a PHD candidate at the National Arts University of Bucharest. She works at the intersection of video and performance between research and speculation, often collaboratively, creating contexts for the emergence of new practices and organisation. Her practice as a performer, video artist and sound collector moves from reality to fiction in an endless conversation with the viewer. From 2012 she powers together with Xandra Popescu, Atelier 35, a project space from Bucharest.
Contact:
larisa.crunteanu[at]gmail[dot]com
Festivals, awards:
Exhibition 'Good Girls' - National Museum of Contemporary Art MNAC, Bucharest