Trying to purchase what I once wanted to forget

Razvan Botis – Romanian artist who has participated in residency of Krinzinger Projekte gallery, exhibits his new work – photographs and objects. Combines or changes ordinary objects in a playful way, assigns them new features, show them in different contexts.

artistsRazvan Botis
placeGalerie Krinzinger
tags
castRazvan Botis
cameraIvan Svoboda
soundIvan Svoboda
editingIvan Svoboda
interviewIvan Svoboda
published20. 1. 2011
languageČesky / English
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Trying to purchase what I once wanted to forget
The concept of the exhibition is based on the ideological convergence of the work of Catherine Radosa and Jaroslav Varga, which consists in revealing the physical and symbolic traces of the past. Both artists examine these relics of bygone times and eras from the perspective of collective memory and the mechanisms of its storage. A vacant lot is an empty space, a gap left by a past situation that can be filled again. The installation Colonne / Révolution captures the constant cycle of the monument in a triple projection. The period of the revolutionary Paris Commune is still a problematic period in France, similar to the period of socialism in our country: it has been and continues to be reinterpreted, tabooed, or marginalized.