IRINA BOTEA BUCAN : UNFINISHING THE CULTURAL HOUSE. A MODEL FOR A PROTOTYPE

Join us to discover the work of artist and PhD researcher Irina Botea Bucan. All welcome!

Exhibition 19th Jan – 25th Jan

Exhibition tour 20th Jan 6PM and upon request (please contact at irinab@gmail.com)

Open to the public by appointment

Location: Room 3, 43 Lewisham Way SE14 6QD, (ring the bell)

Unfinishing the Cultural House. A Model for a Prototype
The exhibition proposes a small-scale model of a cultural house prototype.
The result of a practice-led research, focusing upon and exercising 'unfinishing' the ubiquitous institutions of cultural houses in Romania, as locations of the amateur where everyone can actively be engaged in cultural activities. The project is proposing a new ontology of the moving and ‘static’ image named the agential image, coagulated in three spectral components: the comrade image, the echo image, and the dialectical image. This new ontology is directed towards testing how images could avoid a representationalist function and has been developed through the practice of filmmaking, embroidery and co-creating a cultural programme together visiting arts, anthropologists, museumographers and the local community in Fundata (Romania) for the past three years in order to re-activate the existing cultural house.

Irina Botea Bucan (b. Ploiesti, Romania) has developed a symbiotic artist-educator-gardener-researcher methodological framework that consistently questions dominant socio-political ideas and centralizes human and non-human agency as a vehicle for meaning. Choosing to act in diverse contexts, such as: academic institutions, alternative galleries, museums, art biennials, film festivals, gardens, community centres, and cultural houses; she is currently focusing on the de-centralization of cultural discourses and the possibility of sustaining creative differentiation that arguably exists outside of a dominant hegemonic system of values and critique. Since 2013 she has been collaborating with Jon Dean initiating the Casa Radesti Residency in 2021. Currently she is faculty at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Solo and group shows include: 55th Venice Biennale; International Film Festival Rotterdam; New Museum, New York; MUSAC (Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilia and Leon) Leon; Pompidou Centre, Paris; National Gallery Jeu de Paume, Paris; Kunsthalle, Winterthur; Reina Sofia National Museum, Madrid; Gwangju Biennale, South Korea; U -Turn Quadriennial, Copenhagen; 51st Venice Biennale; Prague Biennale; Kunstforum, Vienna; Foksal Gallery, Warsaw; Argos Center for Art and Media, Brussels; MNAC (National Museum of Contemporary Art), Bucharest; Museum of Contemporary Art, Szczecin; Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowki Castle, Warsaw; Phillips Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; Inkubator, Jogja; Columbia University, NY; European Academy of Participation, Amsterdam, Netherlands; ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; OSA/CEU Budapest; La Kunsthalle, Mulhouse,; University of Johannesburg; Loop, Barcelona; NTU - CCA, Singapore.

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