What's real & what isn't?

Poster_FantomAugust.jpg

WHAT IS REAL AND WHAT IS NOT?
Ceramics & graphics exhibition
Anca Vintila Dragu is a ceramic artist, she completed her master’s degree in Ceramics in 2019 from the University of Arts Bucharest (UNArte). Alex Dragu graduated from the Faculty of Graphics at the National University of Arts Bucharest in 2017. They both live & work in Bucharest, Romania.
Human thinking, influenced by current sources of information, has moved away from factual reality. People circulate constructs of ideas that have their own metabolism, causing the notions of truth and justice to lose their meaning. All the ideas we operate with have developed a new form of interaction that has moved away from reality due to the way social media works; the news as such is immersed in its reinterpretations, ideological, social, political, cultural, racial constructs, etc.
Alex's works talk about the contrast between a meaning of things that have a clarity and the conglomerate of abstract formulations of the human mind, which is behind that meaning. Reality is mediated.
In Anca's works we find a symbolic representation of people's current discourse, starting from a real fact, loaded or metamorphosed into zoomorphic representations that encapsulate identity and specific function.
A "primordial soup" of people's minds loaded with history, social differences, beliefs, taboos and altered values.
Descartes asked the question "Why do we fail to understand each other" as the starting point of the "Discourse on Method". After human thinking has revealed the answer in relation to human subjectivity, at this moment the question is topical again and the answer must be sought elsewhere.