Anamaria Tănase & Daniel Lupșa| Living Doors (after Marina Abramović & Ulay)

"If there were no artists, there would be no museums, so we are living doors." (Marina Abramović and Ulay)

The way the public enters and then moves inside a museum or gallery is determined by a combination of objective and subjective factors (the architecture of the space, the layout of the works, the recommendation of a route by the curators, personal preferences, impulses of the moment). Anamaria Tănase and Daniel Lupșa are interested in preserving the traces of the public's interaction with the gallery space and proposed a participatory performance in which this discreet choreography would remain imprinted on the textile material placed on the pavement.

Starting from the performance titled Imponderabilia, made by Marina Abramović and Ulay, the premise of the project proposed by Anamaria and Daniel for the Hyperesthesia exhibition space is that the artist becomes the "living door" of the gallery and the main reason for the spontaneous choreography by visitors in the exhibition space. The public's movement was observed in the entrance area and in the last room, where participation in the creation of an artwork composed of handprints remained a personal choice for those who reached the final point of the gallery.

Curator: Maria Orosan-Telea