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Confessions of Faith
2018
Confessions of Faith
Mogoșoaia Palace
About our faith in God, the greatest and the sternest of all forms of faith, only LOVE can speak. I would like to draw a heart instead of this text, a heart able to contain these words. That was unreachable.
This exhibition should be imagined as a halt through a bigger project staged by the artist known as Romanian Diary. This is the first exhibition from this series of documentary theater representations, and I represent to myself this interruption as a holly halt. Because the wholeness of the inner dialog inside the cuhnia, as Carmen Lidia Vidu stage it, represents a very personal story about faith. A story about the relation with God, brought from the village of Socolari, the village of the artist’s grandparents, in the courtyard of the Brancovenian palace. Privates stories about people, times and events are told, moments which reinforced or tested the faith, stories about how could faith move mountains if it would be enough.
Everything exposed has been brought from home, each “object” part of this exhibition has a very deep personal weight, it comes from a direct genealogical line, they belong to the family. The grandmother’s pray or one of the neighbors, the walk of the grandfather towards the church, father Cristian Barbosu’s sermon, the wall statements (păretare) preserve that unique accent and they cover, as Carmen imagined it, the old kitchen’s walls.
I would like this exhibition to be seen as you would be walking along the alleys of the village of Socolary and there, you would meet the artist and have chat about faith. That dialog is now staged on the walls of the old cuhnia.
This exhibition should be imagined as a halt through a bigger project staged by the artist known as Romanian Diary. This is the first exhibition from this series of documentary theater representations, and I represent to myself this interruption as a holly halt. Because the wholeness of the inner dialog inside the cuhnia, as Carmen Lidia Vidu stage it, represents a very personal story about faith. A story about the relation with God, brought from the village of Socolari, the village of the artist’s grandparents, in the courtyard of the Brancovenian palace. Privates stories about people, times and events are told, moments which reinforced or tested the faith, stories about how could faith move mountains if it would be enough.
Everything exposed has been brought from home, each “object” part of this exhibition has a very deep personal weight, it comes from a direct genealogical line, they belong to the family. The grandmother’s pray or one of the neighbors, the walk of the grandfather towards the church, father Cristian Barbosu’s sermon, the wall statements (păretare) preserve that unique accent and they cover, as Carmen imagined it, the old kitchen’s walls.
I would like this exhibition to be seen as you would be walking along the alleys of the village of Socolary and there, you would meet the artist and have chat about faith. That dialog is now staged on the walls of the old cuhnia.
