November 26, 2024 – January 31 2025, Bastion 3, Hector 1, Timișoara
Opening, Tuesday, November 26, 6PM
Offering is a sum of maximalist dialogues between Lucian Barbu and Ana Kun, either bi or three dimensional, concentrated in several areas in Indecis in episodes of visual oversharing. They are based on actual conversations from the common space in the studio as well as on inner thoughts, exploring topics that occupy their minds, such as labor and exploitation in relation to mental health.
Each work in the space is brought to the audience, as well as to the makers, as an offering towards more compassion, listening and creating.
Some offerings, individually produced as invitation and response, take the form of a few soft installations, others are disguised as nine collaborative horror vacui drawings. The smaller, more compact ones, take shelter under glass, while larger ones embrace the space in shades of gray.
The exhibition program includes a guided tour with LuciAna at the opening, a communal dinner before the winter holidays, and a finissage where an experimental publication will be launched, adding the final piece to this investigation.
LuciAna is an artist duo formed in 2023. Lucian Barbu and Ana Kun are ⅖ of Balamuc collective in Timișoara, together with Livia Coloji, Răzvan Cornici and Gavril Pop. The duo applies a convivial method to collective drawing and self-publishing (zines). On-going projects include the Vegan Agenda, a semi-public body of work which includes paste-up street art and cook uniforms, and automatic drawings on issues of mental health. In October of this year, they were artists in residence at Riso&Friends in Rijeka. The collective zine produced on this occasion is available to browse, alongside others. This is their second exhibition after Nine Gates of Other People at Ulicna Galerija in Beograd.
The event is organized in partnership with the Municipality of Timișoara, through the Projects Center.