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| Andrea Faciu | |
Rumänska kulturinstitutet 25 okt–9 jan |
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 Andrea Faciu: Touching the City, 2007 We all know how it feels to caress or to beat a human being, an animal or a thing. But how does it feel to touch a city, an urban conglomerate? A city as a large-scale conglomerate, built out of vivid and consolidated material, of the relationships and structures existing between them, between the real visible architecture of the street, of each kind of extroversion, and the – in a certain way – utopian architecture, in which we construct our networks and the required areas of action within society, by balancing virtues, im-possibilities, necessities and by searching the balance between the common and the special. We all personalise and characterise, fable-like, the places from which we come, where we are right now or those we want to reach, mostly without realising the exact point where our own subjectivity intersects an objectivity imposed by patterns of thought and definitions not of our own. It is about experiencing, feeling the cities and their inner life, including the inner lives of the people living in them. I actually touch them physically – and not only physically – I palpate and rummage, dirty my hands with their particular “DUST OF CIVILISATION”. (Andrea Faciu, 2007) |
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