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Sunday, March 20, 2016 - 17:00
Cast:
Amanda Storm, Dragoș Alexandrescu
Cinematography:
Dragoș Alexandrescu, Jukka Rajala-Granstubb
Editing:
Dragoș Alexandrescu
Sound:
Stefan Backas
International Premiere
Dragoș Alexandrescu is willing to show us how the simulative nature of our existence, of the inherent constraints of the system affect us in our daily life and in our personal development. The biggest three doctrines exposed with their specific books: marxism, religion and capitalism are buried under the failure of the entire society; they’re being deconstructed through a meticulous work process of tearing out and aligning paper fragments in a highly organized labor which gives us the successful ideological image, that of binding together people. However, the counterpoint is the girl who sits and knits and rejects the nostalgia of simpler times, emphasizing the fact that having flaws still let you succeed in your creation and in what must be reconstructed. (Claudia Cojocariu, BIEFF)
Director:
Dragoș Alexandrescu, born 1974, in Romania is an audiovisual artist and since 2007 he lives in Finland. In 2005 he received his MFA at the Visual Arts Academy ‘G. Enescu’ in Iași, Romania. Most of his art practice is a form of interrogation of the present, in which fictional narratives, based on our socio-economic structure, try to (re)produce an emotional rather than rational response from the audience. His series of works exhibited worldwide (The Absence of Presence, Before was Better, Collective Intimacy, Love. Utopia. Economy) talks about ideological conflict and approaches elements of life, concerned with the period of structural fragility, economic and identity crises placed on the European backdrop.
Contact:
drg_alexandrescu[at]yahoo[dot]com
Festivals, awards:
- Viennafair – Vienna, Austria 2013
- Silencio – Paris, France 2014
- Loop Fair – Barcelona, Spain 2014
- Appearance & Essence, Contemporary Art Encounters – Timișoara, Romania 2015
- Between Democracies 1989-2014 – Johannesburg, South Africa 2015
- In Times of Hope and Unrest – MNAC, Bucharest, Romania 2015
Director's statement:
‘Watching someone knit can be a visible reminder that there are things more valuable than efficiency’ (Kate M.Daley). The art piece is a documentation of a handicraft process that turned away from its commercial/ornamental purpose and become critical/political.The video is a personal interpretation of the contemporary society, in which the idea of failing is getting more like a taboo subject to deal with. According with some researchers of cognitive science, knitting is a good example of accepting the failure easier. Expanding this idea, my project is dealing with the failure of the society rather than an individual one, a ‘dogmatic’ failure in which the perfection is infallible and can’t be denied. (Dragoș Alexandrescu)
‘Watching someone knit can be a visible reminder that there are things more valuable than efficiency’ (Kate M.Daley). The art piece is a documentation of a handicraft process that turned away from its commercial/ornamental purpose and become critical/political.The video is a personal interpretation of the contemporary society, in which the idea of failing is getting more like a taboo subject to deal with. According with some researchers of cognitive science, knitting is a good example of accepting the failure easier. Expanding this idea, my project is dealing with the failure of the society rather than an individual one, a ‘dogmatic’ failure in which the perfection is infallible and can’t be denied. (Dragoș Alexandrescu)