What Goes Around
Dan Acostioaei
Borderline Art Space, Iasi
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- Title
- What Goes Around
- Gallery
- Borderline Art Space, Iasi
- Year
- 2011
- Duration
- 15 min 56 s
- Format & Technical
Single channel, SD video, Colour, Stereo Sound
After the fall of Communism in Romania, one of the power structures to fill up the ideological void was the Orthodox Church. In much of my practice, I address the resurfacing of the church following the events of 1989. The work titled What Goes Around (2011) enacts an image of tour middle-aged blessing ritual. Through this scene, I try to question and comment on the cultural condition in Romania, where moral ambiguity is no longer the exception as you move between different social spaces.
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Dan Acostioaei
- Artist
1974, Iasi, Romania
Dan Acostiaei was born in Iasi, Romania, where he lives and works. He is a visual artist and holds a teaching position at University of Arts “George Enescu” in lasi. His works focuses on the identity models of the Romanian society in transition and on the ideological boundaries between the economic sphere and the conditions of artistic production within former Eastern Bloc. His artistic projects were part of group exhibitions such as One Sixth of the Earth – Ecologies of Image, MUSAC, Leon, Spain (2012), Transitland: video-art in Central and Eastern Europe 1989-2009, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (2010), Illuminations.
Last update 5th May, 2017.
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Borderline Art Space
- Address
- Belvedere Nº 18, 700555, Iasi, Romania
- Phone
- +40 722379395
- office@borderlinespace.com
- Website
- www.borderlinespace.com
Borderline Art Space is an art gallery in Iași, Romania, that promotes contemporary art produced in diverse social, political and borderline situations, and fosters critical discourse on present problematics and poetics.
Borderline Art Space is interested in exhibiting both emerging and established artists and, while contributing to the development of artistic institutional structure, takes pride in its commitment to an educational role.