Extended Hours
Rhythmic Stress / Tensiuni în ritm
With Justin Baroncea & Cristian Matei, Cecilia Bengolea, Marius Bercea, Alexandra Cojocaru, Mara Cucu, Simona Deaconescu, Aukje Dekker, C. B. Evans, Fronte Vacuo, Maria Ghement & Alexandra Müller (x Ioana Albu x Maria Rusu), Dumitru Gorzo, Madeline Hollander, Anne Imhof, Julia Kowalska, Oliver Laric, Ligia Lewis, Ioana Marchidan, Lucy McRae, Alex Mirutziu, Rachel Monosov, Andrei Nițu, Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel, Tanin Torabi, Judith Wagner, Nives Widauer
Curated by Alex Radu & Charles Moore
Thursday, April 9th, we invite you to visit the international group exhibition "Rhythmic Stress / Tensiuni în ritm" at /SAC @ BERTHELOT (str. Berthelot, no. 5, ring at 10) during the opening hours of DOIJOI from 6PM to 10PM.
“Rhythmic Stress” is an inquiry into movement, the movement of bodies, of breath, of images, of language, of architecture, of power. It is an exhibition conceived at the intersection of dance, performance, contemporary art, and spatial practice, where rhythm becomes both a material condition and a political force. Approaching movement not as ornament or spectacle, the conversation instigated by these works becomes a primary strategy for negotiating tension: tension between stillness and eruption, control and release, endurance and collapse, private sensation and public consequence. In this sense, “Rhythmic Stress” positions movement as a response to violence, loss, systemic injustice, and the accumulation of micro-events that shape our bodies long before they become legible as history.