Work:
"Unlovable Prospects. Saba’s look on the Future" is a short film that takes the form of a sci-fi (twilight zone type) miniseries, produced during the COVID lock-down spring 2020, Iasi, Romania.
Before the COVID-19 crisis, the scenarios that have now become a daily routine were specific to Hollywood, being isolated in the field of fiction. Starting from the parallel between fiction / film and reality ”Unlovable Prospects. Saba’s look on the Future ”proposes 4 dystopian scenarios of the post-COVID future. Combining empirical information with speculation and creative modeling, this project aims to critically analyze the capitalist system and how people can organize (or not) at critical times.
– the video was commissioned by "Fundatia 9" within their "ARTISTSROOMS" fellowship.
Artist:
Silvia Amancei (1991) and Bogdan Armanu (1991) is an artist couple living and activating in the city of Iasi, Romania.
Their artistic practice could be positioned at the border between social studies and visual art, researching for methods and examples where art and artistic means can be instrumentalized in order to overexcite the ability to look beyond capitalism and create a (common) future.
Working together since 2012, the two artists have materialized a series of solo exhibitions, exploring the paradigm of life exploitation: “It was always in plain sight” (2020, Bucharest, RO) “If Then What After” (2019, Baden, AT), “What Past? What Future?”(2017, Linz, AT), “When atoms collide and disturb entropy” (2017, Craiova, RO), “Return to Spaceship Earth” (2017, Bucharest, RO), “Depression, Uncertainty and other symptoms of Mortality” (2016, Lodz, Poland), “In Search for Causes and Realities” (2016, Iasi, Romania), “Clinical Architectures for a Compositionist Future (Part II)” (2016, Iasi, Romania), “Constellations of Desires” (2016, Iasi, Romania), “(No)Future” (2015, Eckernforde, Germany), “No Hope For a Future” (2015, Iasi, Romania), “Metropia” (2014, Iasi, Romania).
Their works have been present in numerous collective exhibitions from which the most noteworthy are: “Go, Stop, Stay” (2019, Debrecen, HU), “STRIKE GENTLY AWAY ____” (2019, Salzburg, AT), “Displacement and Togetherness” (2019, Brussels, BE), “Capital’s Time Machine” (2018, Bucharest, RO), “Baywatch” (2018, Berlin, DE), “Alternative Facts” (2018, Stuttgart, DE), “Odessa Biennial” (2017, Odessa, Ukraine), “BIDEODROMO. International Experimental Film and Video Festival”(2016, Bilbao, Spain), “After Eden” (2016, Budapest, Hungary), “In Times of Hope and Unrest” (2015, Bucharest, Romania) “Between Democracies 1989-2014”, (2015, Johannesburg, South Africa), “Appearance & Essence”, 1st Timisoara Art Encounters Biennale (2015, Timisoara, Romania), “Visualcontainer TV” (2015, Marseille, France), “CLOSE-UP” (2015, Prague, Czech Republic).
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