The West University of Timișoara invites you to participate Tuesday, May 9, 2023, starting at 18 p.m, at the inauguration event of the space dedicated to the intersection of art, science and technology – UVT Art Center - located near the Faculty of Arts and Design (Str. Oituz, no. 4).
The event is occasioned by the opening of the installation in this space "Memory [OFF] Space", in an exhibition form that can be visited for about three weeks. The exhibition will be opened in the presence of authors, doctoral students and visual artists Cezara Padurean, Bogdan Matei, Sânziana Gheorghe and Mihai Toth, from the Faculty of Arts and Design of UVT. This installation is part of a progressive project, representing a stage in the continuous research of the team of visual artists, a collaborative artistic project that offers an interdisciplinary experience, whose presentation is perfectly adapted to the spatial framework of the new UVT Art Center.
The event will be attended by both the artists who make up the team of creators of the "Memory [OFF] Space" installation, as well as representatives of the UVT management, the Faculty of Arts and Design, prof. Dr. Camil Mihăiescu, dean of the faculty, lect. university Dr. Maria Orosan-Telea, curator and art critic, students, researchers and visual artists, as well as their guests.
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About the exhibition "Memory [OFF] Space"
This exhibition discusses the conceptual theme of memory in relation to physical space and explores, from an aesthetic and morphological point of view, the coordinates that can be drawn between three-dimensional spaces and two-dimensional images. The "Memory [OFF] Space" exhibition will be accompanied by events open to the public, such as guided tours, artist talks, discussion circles and screenings of documentaries on the intersection of art, science and technology. The project focuses on the research and investigation of the intersection between memory, space and distance through an interdisciplinary approach and through multimedia mechanisms.
At a conceptual level, the basic coordinates of the installation are memory, space and distance, also appealing to the idea of virtual space, by indexing the space on the Google Maps platform along with its scan at the time of completion of the exhibition installation.
The team of artists opens the doors of this laboratory to the public, inviting visitors to discover and actively engage in the projects that make up the multimedia installation, as well as to take part in the debate of ideas related to contemporary artistic practices.
The creators of the exhibition hope to generate discussions and debates around the theme of memory and its interpretation through interdisciplinary artistic projects. Within the site-specific installation, the group of visual artists will interpret the proposed theme by calling on unconventional objects and materials such as needles, thread, rice grains, polystyrene, paper, sand, all of which are juxtaposed with topographical tools, video projections, recordings of sounds and stacks of artistic and documentary photocopies.
