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Zina Gallery

Str. Axente Sever 14 A, Cluj-Napoca
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The Wild Dream Enclosed

With Marco Verhoogt
Daniela Custrin
Marco Verhoogt’s first solo exhibition unfolds from a paradox: the impulse to merge with nature, to rewild oneself, while simultaneously keeping its autonomy intact. His works are not declarations but rehearsals, trial scenes where attention is both genuine and awkward. A wooden bear is positioned like a roadside mascot, waiting for your hand to reach out. Seashells and stones are placed in a bathtub, suddenly domestic, suddenly out of place, wet and shining. A hybrid figure, half-human and half-dog, clutches a bone far too heavy for its own body. These objects are proxies, experiments in proximity: how to hold, to look, to pet, to collect, without tipping over into destruction. The artist’s vision is playing with harmony, creating a series of trial runs, attempts, and failures at negotiating a future that hasn’t yet arrived. When the weekend ends, the imagined crowd vanishes. The beetles crawl back. The logs remain damp. What endures is not fusion, but nature watching back, remembering your gestures, and your willingness to try again. - excerpt from text by Daniela Custrin

Tell us about Zina Gallery.

Zina is a contemporary art gallery founded in 2020 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, supporting multidisciplinary emerging artists. The gallery balances between exhibiting represented artists and hosting curated projects, aiming to provide ongoing support for the local and regional contemporary scene, as well as to promote our programme internationally. The gallery’s collective encourages collaborative work, with artists taking charge of the curation or art direction decisions. Focusing on new generations of artists with shared visions, who address present-day issues of gender, ecology or technology, whereas employing a highly expansive range of mediums, Zina is looking to expand and foster a fluid, innovative artistic circuit. Recently, The Zina Project Space venue has been opened as an appendix to the gallery, designed to host alternative and experimental projects that accompany the gallery’s programme.

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