One-armed race against memory

This project is a new media installation, created with an object reclaimed from a past period, that the displayed videos speak about. The film, on the exterior door is an assembly that excites the viewer, through unexpected juxtapositions of frames: fruits, images of Romania's golden star in gymnastics, Nadia Comaneci, and scenes extracted from Harun Faroki and Victor Ujica's film, "Videograms". The montage speaks about collective memory and trauma, as well as an interest in the historical dynamics of
events. Inside the car door, more precisely, on the rearview mirror, small images in the form of GIFs of family photographs are projected, narrating a personal history that unfolds within the family environment concurrently with the communist revolution from 1989, and historical events, as a retrospective glance. The title "One-armed Race against Memory" refers to the personification of the Dacia car, a symbol of Romanian production and a highlight of national glory, and to the fact that from it remains a single "arm", which fights against forgetting and against the repetition of history. It is a steadfast symbol of the moralizing events of the past.

Link to video: https://youtu.be/0KOlI-MHFbo

Project exhibited in:
YOUNG ARTISTS CONNECTIONS, MNAC, Bucharest, Romania,
September- October, 2020
Domestic Dissidence, Victoria Gallery, 2019
Artsafari: Young Blood, Bucharest, Oscar Maugsch Palace, 2019
Regenerator: Micro-festival of performative and visual arts, Teatru Fix,
Hala Fix, Iasi, 2019
Dezarhivari, ApARTE Gallery, Iasi, 2018
Link to video: https://youtu.be/0KOlI-MHFbo