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MOnuMENTS

The main idea of the project is “Identity” – the artist’s identity, the individual’s identity, the nation’s identity! Identity – not national, not ethnical, not sexual or religious, not communitary or zonal or any other kind but a rural and urban identity, an identity created by the rural and urban society which defines us, given by the colored monochrome of every day and every night of the cities where we are born, grow live and work, a borrowed identity, non-personal impersonal. An identity, unidentified, imprinted with every detail of the rural and urban life starting with block district, shop, super-market mall and ending with the politics and culture of the city, its specific means of behavior and communication.   MOnuMENTS is an artistic project, which proposes a cultural and social reflection; aiming at a dialogue between rural and urban spaces, between different mentalities, between past and present. MOnuMENTS present the moment when the monument was erected and the moment when we documented. MOnuMENTS is a natural, organic response from the artists to all these mutations and reconfigurations of the present time. The immediate result is the documentation of the diversity as a mixture between the urban and rural development, between cultural gestures and collective and individual gestures.   The mission of the project was “work in progress” nature, which means ongoing working possibilities, means associations, changes and social dynamics. We are dealing with cultural gestures as well as individual or collective gestures, in between different representations but using similar techniques. MOnuMENTS present reality through the enticement of gesture, cultural and imagistic quotes which get filter and interpreted, and the balance in between metaphorical and abstract.