Vision of a Nation

Artists: Bull.Miletic, Nicu Ilfoveanu, Kristina Norman
Curator: Alina Şerban
Design: studioBASAR, Dan Bălăneanu
Location: Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norvegia
Period: 21 November 2014 - 11 January 2015

Courtesy Fotogalleriet Oslo, credit photo: István Virág

http://www.fotogalleriet.no

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Carol Popp de Szathmari - Michael the Great statue / University Square, Bucharest

What is today the vision of the future in regards to the feelings of longing and belonging to a nation? Why do individuals project their own emotions, anxieties and desires amidst the national community? How is national communion encountered and represented today under the spectre of a newly imagined trans-national geography? What are the limitations, challenges and hopes?
VISION OF A NATION is an exhibition produced by Fotogalleriet, which opens up a territory for questions about the ways contemporary representations of nation, embedded in spatially specific scenarios, translate deeper issues of power, ethnicity, amnesia and radicalization of societies. The project attempts to differentiate and mirror the sense of self along the varying individualized or publicly fuelled narratives. It is against this background that performances of nationhood (-ess) are captured and re-imagined with reflective self-awareness by the invited artists.
(Alina Şerban)

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VISION OF A NATION
The curator’s discourse is rendered through a series of wood structures that, through the joint esthetics, tries to unify and to bring equilibrium to the different works. The series exhibited by the artists, with several pieces on various mediums, are separated on different areas of the gallery. The support structures contain and sustain the works, referring to the idea of the pedestal/base, seen both as a support and as an integral part of a monument. With an esthetics between unfinished and minimal, the objects have the structure at sight, uncovered, with the cables and the power outlets left visible, trying to exhibit the fragility and temporariness of the curatorial idea of such national constructs.

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