Eu, En, Ich (II) - Myths -

In 1993 a first exhibition with a declared feminist content took place in Bucharest : Eu, En, Ich – a title that was repeating the pronoun I in Romanian, Hungarian, and German, the three major nationalities living in Romania. Coming after the fall of the communist regime, this exhibition provoked many rumours at the time. The three participants in it, Marilena Preda Sânc, Roxana Trestioreanu, and Magda Cârneci, accompanied by the written comments of art critic Alexandra Titu, proposed visual-sonorous installations that were asserting, with a certain courage for the period, the right to acknowledge and to exhibit female physical and psychological issues within a world still marked by totalitarian prudishness and censorship.

Twenty years later, a second edition of that exhibition is being organized, wherein visual artist Aurora Király has joined the group and the commentary is signed by sociologist Laura Grünberg. This time the vast theme of conteporary mythology is explored from a feminin/feminist point of view. From the personal myth to the family one, from the socio-political myth to the national one, the series of contradictory and overlapping identities composing our individual and collective selves are tackled with photo, video, drawing, and pictural means in order to make them transparent and acceptable, less conflictual and more transgressible.