"The generic theme Circulation, which is the "compulsory figure test" of this edition of Curated_by, is only a large basket that allows you to draw the curatorial material and even to free oneself as it turns out, in the programmatic text, that the processes are more dynamic.
What interests us in our proposal is the idea of displacement, concatenation, permutation, mobility, transfer and correspondence, and of trajectories that the main idea encompasses in a subtle manner. Circulation is a term whose etymology finds its root in Latin circulatio. In other words: the act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began. The act of passing from place to place or person to person.
For this reason, the focus for this exhibition is more on the dynamics that govern the conditions under which the works are produced and the present that inspires them. And what comes out naturally of all this is the causal loop effect involving information or objects that over time shift value and ultimately make sense. Another term that we would like to revive is the predestination paradox used in the Star Trek series to speak of a "time loop in which a traveler returns to the past to try to prevent an event from occurring, but ends to provoke this event”."
Pusha Petrov uses the photographic image wisely, skillfully observing the intimacy of people and highlighting the details of their daily existence and their specific attitudes that lead to preserve the singularity of each. By taking pictures of gesturs, objects or inhabited spaces, she symbolically shows the ordinary context of people, offering a sociological and aesthetic reading of ways of life. Developed in collaboration with artists she met during her residency at Cite internationale des arts, a selection of her new work will be presented here.
Pusha Petrov (Romania) is a recipient of the Visual Arts Committees of the Cité internationale des arts.