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DUBLĂ EXPUNERE II
10 female writers and 10 female artistsIn 2014, Kontakt Association launched Dublă Expunere, an editorial project which became the playground of ten writers and ten contemporary artists from Romania.
The result was a hybrid book, in which the visual elements completed the short stories that the writers imagined, inspired by the works of art provided by the artists.
The project later expanded, turning into a series of public meetings between the writers and the visual artists who participated in the creation of this publication, the discussions taking place around the meeting points between visual and written language and the narratives that can be born while following these intersections.
The first volume, Dublă Expunere was launched at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest, in the presence of the writers and artists who participated in this project, as well as the public, to whom this approach is addressed.
This volume brought together the works of contemporary artists and writers as follows:
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Eight years ago, when the project first took shape with the support of Raiffeisen Bank and the participation of artists and writers who believed in its vision, the representation of the female component in contemporary Romanian culture was quite limited. In the inaugural volume, only Nora Iuga and Adela Greceanu contributed as female voices. Notably, writers were allowed to select the artworks that inspired them, and interestingly, all the chosen pieces were created by male artists.
Now, in its second volume, the project is taking a distinctive and deliberate feminine approach to visual art and literary writing in Romania. Following a structure akin to the inaugural volume, we have carefully curated a selection of 10 visual artists and 10 writers, all prominent figures in today's Romanian cultural landscape. We are confident that these creative minds possess the ability to cultivate a unique universe where the two artistic realms mutually reinforce and validate each other.
Additionally, the second volume is set to feature a preface authored by Diana Marincu, while the artists and writers are:
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10 ROMANIAN FEMALE ARTISTS
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Beatrice Arzoiu
More about the artistBeatrice Arzoiu does not shy away from exploring significant things like death, life, or spirituality and to bring them into discussions with an almost unnatural clarity as if she is describing a painting she made a few lives ago. The matters that Beatrice approaches with passion are found in her art - in small but intense doses.
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Norica Popescu
More about the artistShe considers painting to be a divine grace granted to man, for through it the invisible becomes visible, the past can be displaced into the present and the future, and oblivion is transformed into eternal memory, overcoming time and defeating death.
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Victoria Zidaru
More about the artistVictoria Zidaru is one of the most powerful artists in Romania. A discreet presence, Victoria succeeds in building her feminine, mystical and traditional Romanian style, combining natural elements starting from dead leaves, straw, hemp, woven or linen fabrics.
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Ecaterina Vrana
More about the artistRomanian artist, who worked mainly with painting. She was born in Constanta in 1969 and used to live and work in Bucharest. Her thick-layered paintings dealt with a very personal universe, virtually a "petite histoire" of the artist's own existence. Her motifs often appear repeated and reworked in several different paintings, almost like in a dream-like repertoire.
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Geta Brătescu
More about the artistGeta Brătescu has been a central figure of Romanian contemporary art since the 1960s. An artist with a rich and long career, Brătescu developed a complex body of work that comprises drawing, collage, engraving, tapestry, object, photography, experimental film, video, and performance. She studied at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy and concurrently at the Fine Arts Academy in Bucharest and worked as an artistic director for the magazine “Secolul 20 [20th Century]”, renamed “Secolul 21 [21st Century]” at the turn of the millennium.
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Hortensia Mi Kafchin
More about the artistBorn in the Romanian city of Galați in 1986. In 2010 she graduated from the University of Art and Design in Cluj, where she had specialised in pottery, glass and metal. Kafchin then worked as an assistant to the painter Adrian Ghenie, whose studio she later took over.
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Suzana Dan
More about the artistSuzana Dan is an artist, producer and exhibition curator, founder of the Ephemair Association, initiator of projects such as Noaptea Albă a Galeriilor, Galeriilor Weekend or Art on Display.
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Larisa Sitar
More about the artistVisual artist whose practice explores the evolution of social and cultural values in relation to political movements, socio-economic contexts, technological advances, and our connections with the natural world. Her projects draw from and employ a wide variety of techniques, often blending technical and digital processes with well-known traditional and analog forms.
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Lea Rasovszky
More about the artist“Lea Rasovszky's art can be considered as a reflection on the seemingly endless births, metamorphoses, deaths, and ensuing resurrections of pop culture, “the sole myth system that unites us all”, as Leslie Fiedler once said. Indeed, at first sight it's all there, mostly in the form of small drawings and mixed media panels, or in room installations: the bodies, the boobs, the (s)dicks, the sex, the fashion, the kitsch, the bunnies, the sunglasses, the beauty nails, the Teletubbies, good old Mickey Mouse, the gender trouble, the shrill colors of advertisement, the hype of the new media, even the specters of religion roaming among the earthly sinners at the supermarket.
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Sigalit Landau
More about the artistAn interdisciplinary artist who works with installation, video, photography and sculpture, with works includded in major collections: The Brooklyn Museum, MACBA, MoMA, Centre George Pompidou, The Israel Museum, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art and MoCK (The Museum of Contemporary art Krakow)
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10 FEMALE ROMANIAN WRITERS
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Livia Ștefan
More about the writerI see my poetry as a puzzle piece, trying to complete this big picture that our society is. Autobiographic at the beginning, drowned in intimate details about my childhood and youth spent in my hometown (Giurgiu), my work is now starting to become more and more serious related to the global picture, since I feel increasingly attracted to exploring the conflicts that shaped and continue to shape our history. - Livia Ștefan
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Ana Barton
More about the writerShe is the author of the prose volumes Prospect of Woman, Mammal and Oath of Wandering (all published by Herg Benet Publishing House), two books-album Social Life and Ladies and Gentlemen, The Most Beautiful Prose of the Year: Anthology (Adenium Publishing House, 2014) and The Book of Senses, a collective volume coordinated by Dan C. Mihăilescu (Humanitas Publishing House, 2015).
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Ana-Maria Sandu
More about the writerShe graduated from the Faculty of Letters - University of Bucharest and master's courses from the same faculty. She was part of the project "Letters" Cenacle, led by Mircea Cărtărescu and has collaborated with articles and essays in magazines: "Dilema", "Vineri", "Observator cultural", "Re: Publik", "aLtitudini", "Cosmopolitan". Currently, Ana Maria Sandu is the editor of the magazine Dilema veche.
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Svetlana Cârstean
More about the writer"Floarea de menghină," published by Cartea Românescă in Bucharest in 2008, was translated into Swedish as "Skruvstädsblomman" by Rámus Publishing in 2013. The author contributed to the anthology "Povești cu scriitoare și copii," coordinated by Alina Purcaru and published by Polirom in Iași in 2014. Another notable work, "Gravitație," was released by Editura Trei in Bucharest in 2015. In 2016, the author co-wrote "Trado" with Swedish poet Athena Farrokhzad, published by Nemira in Bucharest. The latest publication, "Sînt alta," was also released by Nemira in Bucharest in 2021.
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Anastasia Gavrilovici
More about the writerHer poems have been translated into over ten languages, including English, Italian, Swedish, Turkish, and Hungarian. In 2023, her debut book will be translated into Serbian by Akademska knjiga in Novi Sad. She lives in Bucharest, where she is an editor for "Poesis Internațional," translates, and is pursuing doctoral studies at the Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest.
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Ioana Pârvulescu
More about the writerShe is a teacher of modern Romanian literature at the Faculty of Letters in Bucharest. She was an editor at Literary Romania for 18 years, at Humanitas Publishing House, she initiated and coordinated the "Book on the Nightstand" collection. In 2013 she won the European Union Prize for Literature.
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Moni Stănilă
More about the writerSome of her poems have been translated into German, English, French, Swedish, Russian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Turkish, Hungarian, and other languages. She has been featured in numerous anthologies both domestically and internationally and is regarded as one of the most representative contemporary poets.
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Ioana Nicolae
More about the writerSome of her poems have been translated into German, English, French, Swedish, Russian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Turkish, Hungarian, etc. She has appeared in numerous anthologies, both in Romania and abroad and is considered among the most representative contemporary poets.
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Simona Popescu
More about the artistShe is a graduate of the Faculty of Letters - University of Bucharest and since 2014 she has been a doctoral lecturer at the Romanian literature department of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bucharest, taking turns in the positions of assistant and university lecturer.
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Tatiana Țîbuleac
More about the writerTatiana Țîbuleac made her editorial debut with Fabule moderne, fallowed by Vara in which my mother had green eyes appeared in 2017 at Cartier Publishing House, in the Rotonda collection. The Romanian edition reached a total circulation of 22,500 copies.
The book is awarded the Prize of the Writers' Union of the Republic of Moldova (2017), the Prize of the Cultural Observatory magazine and the Lyceum Observatory Prize (2018). The novel appeared in French, Spanish, Norwegian, German and Polish. The Spanish edition, published in 2019 by Impedimenta Publishing House, won the European Casino de Santiago Award.
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