Tauromahia

  • WISDOM IN THE ABSENCE OF POWER STRUCTURES

    10.10.2025 – 31.01.2026


    Curator: Georgia Țidorescu
    Artists: Miriam Austin, Floriama Cândea, Ioana Cîrlig, Lera Kelemen, Marine Nouvel

    ”When I began reading Let’s Become Fungal! it revealed a constellation of projects that, despite the pressures of global capitalist structures, manage to thrive through knowledge sharing, common values, and collective aims. The book offered both inspiration and a framework for rethinking how cultural and artistic practices can function when grounded in reciprocity and care, rather than competition or Hierarchy.

    Working in the cultural field often means inhabiting many different roles at once, moving quickly from one project or team to another within the fragmented infrastructure of grants and opportunities. This rhythm makes it difficult to build slower, more durable connections. Yet it is precisely such connections that I find most necessary: collaborations sustained over time, in which artistic practices and research grow through mutual learning instead of reproducing unilateral models of transmission.

    This exhibition marks the beginning of my research into spaces of growth within curatorial practice, spaces that, like the fungal spectrum, connect and intertwine across disciplines and people. Curators, artists, producers, writers, scientists, and teachers all bring distinct methods of working and knowing. By learning from one another, we can begin to see what each perspective offers and how these ways of doing can be combined, adapted, or transformed. The aim is not to collapse these practices into one, but to allow them to co-exist, nurture one another, and form a network of reciprocal exchange that extends beyond the exhibition itself.

    The exhibition intertwines works by Marine Nouvel, Miriam Austin, Ioana Cîrlig, Floriama Cândea, and Lera Kelemen, artists who have been developing their practices in close dialogue with researchers from fields as diverse as biology, technology, philosophy, and sociology. What unites them is not a single theme or medium, but a shared commitment to research as a collaborative process, where artistic imagination and scientific inquiry feed into one another. Their works open up questions that extend beyond the studio or laboratory, asking how knowledge can circulate more freely, and how practices of care and experimentation can overlap. In preparing this exhibition, I have studied their work and the contexts from which it emerges, creating a conversation between their fields of interest and the possibilities of curatorial practice. Rather than presenting finished statements, the exhibition offers a platform where research continues, where ideas initiated in past projects are not concluded but extended through new connections with audiences, collaborators, and communities. In this way, the exhibition itself becomes a point of continuation, ensuring that these inquiries remain alive, evolving, and intertwined.

    We also want the exhibition to speak not only through the finished works but through the processes that made them possible: how the artists worked, the time required, and the many people involved along the way. Alongside the artworks, a dedicated space will showcase how research unfolds, including background notes, sketches, conversations, and fragments of thought that reveal the collective labor of building knowledge. By opening this layer of process, the exhibition makes visible the care and networks that sustain artistic research.

    Ultimately, the exhibition aspires to function as a non-hierarchical structure in itself, one that grows through dialogue, connection, and exchange. It is not a conclusionbut a beginning, a platform where artistic and research practices can meet, intertwine, and continue to evolve. Like the fungal networks that inspired it, the exhibition resists linearity and thrives through interconnection, creating a shared ground where new forms of collaboration may take root and expand.” Georgia Țidorescu

    Project co-financed by the Administration of National Cultural Fund. The project does not necessarily represent the position of the ANCF. ANCF is not responsible for the content of the project or how the project results can be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the beneficiary of the funding.