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LENIN_STREET
STALIN_CITY
Artist: Calin Dan
October 12. 2012 - November 2. 2012.
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An event meant to contextualize historically Calin Dan’s most recent video - "Still life", 20th c. (NL/RO, 2012), while creating a screening environment alternative to the usual black box of the cinema / art gallery. The audience will be offered an improved version of the prison menu and a quick browsing through the secret service files instrumentalizing the case of the artist’s grandmother, a former political convict from mid-20 century Romania.
"Still life", 20th c. alternates the memories of a woman imprisoned by the Romanian communist regime in 1948 with the actions of a little boy preparing the table for lunch at his grand-mother’s place in 1965. Apparently a description of how life unfolded in communist Eastern Europe, the video refers to multiple layers of 20 century history, and involves ideological confusion, guilt, memory, punishment, political oppression, trauma, all wrapped in the banality of a typical struggling working class existence.
Stalin city = Brasov (08.09.1950 – 24.12.1960)
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