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14/10/2015

From confirmation to challenging

MNAC - The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest

Artists: Mihai Balko, Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan, Tudor Bratu, Presidential Candidate, Iosif Kiraly, Marilena Preda-Sanc, Studio Basar, Vlad Nanca, Vlad Petri & Gabi Basalici. Curator Judit Balko. Bucharest, as a research subject, is full of challenges, and the changes through which the city goes are analysed by artists through a vast number of projects and approaches. As the years pass, the initiatives of the organizations concerned with starting a discussion around these changes become more and more ambitious and constant, promoting the endeavours of the artists interested in this subject and contributing to the connection between the passers-by or the citizens and the problems of public space. The exhibition focuses on the analysis of the relationships of power between the elements which contribute to the shaping of the public space. The latter is to be understood in agreement with what philosopher Chantal Mouffe calls the "agonistic" public space, which is seen not as an arena for obtaining consensus but rather as a "battleground where different hegemonic projects are confronted, without any possibility of final reconciliation". In this context, the role of art is primordial in the analysis of power through the "unveiling of all that is repressed by the dominant consensus". Mouffe considers that from the point of view of the outlook of hegemonic politics, all artistic practices are more or less political, because they can only occupy two positions: either that of confirming "the symbolic order" - which they do by simply not opposing it - or fighting against it. The exhibition is part of the Expanded Space project, in its 5th edition. Mihai Balko, Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan, Tudor Bratu, Presidential Candidate, Iosif Kiraly, Marilena Preda-Sanc, Studio Basar, Vlad Nanca, Vlad Petri & Gabi Basalici. Curator Judit Balko.

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