Marilena Preda Sanc, Freedom in the labyrinth
Mask, photography, 15×21 cm., 1994
Location: Art Museum Cluj-Napoca (RO), 30 Unirii Square
Opening: Wednesday, February 22, 17:00 hours
The body, a recurrent theme in the art of MPS, is no longer a self-exploration tool of immersions into utopian constructions, becoming an instrument of exteriorization and castigation of socio-political realities. MPS assumes the coherence of the feminist discourse between the assertion of personal identity and denouncing the marginal status of women and their fragile nature. Although the gap of feminist events and results reached in the West on political and cultural levels is obvious, in Romania a few feminist concerns arise in 1990s feminist art with a more or less subtle message, and MPS manages to stand out through a coherent and conscious approach of feminist issues, and especially through contextual specificity. (Olivia Nitis)
The art of Marilena Preda Sânc contains a sufficient dose of magic idealism, of novelty and interestingness, of ironic life and ironic art, of postromanticism (and here I think of what follows Baudelaire and Kierkegaard), a direct and experimental experience of new languages, of the correspondence between the sensory and spiritual, contains iconic repertoires about the human body as aesthetic object and about the ways of the public to understand and appreciate the art of the time she is living in. (Mircea Oliv)
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