“But it’s hard to stay sane here, in the shadows. It eats away at
you, knowing the walls have ears, that the windows have eyes.”
you, knowing the walls have ears, that the windows have eyes.”
– Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
The Place that Forgets You proposes a visual investigation of the domestic space as a territory situated between protection and comfort, memory and pressure. The project reconfigures the house not only as a physical location, but as a psychological and affective structure in which identity is shaped, negotiated, and sometimes repressed.
The images construct a visual universe in which the familiar becomes strange. Domestic objects: glass, textiles, and utensils are extracted from their everyday functionality and symbolically charged, becoming carriers of inherited tensions. In this context, the house acquires an almost organic presence: it observes, records, and retains. It is no longer a simple space, but a silent actor
that actively participates in shaping interior reality.
that actively participates in shaping interior reality.
The artistic approach operates through an aesthetics of dislocation and repetition. Recurring gestures, postures, and objects suggest a cyclicality of domestic experience, a loop in which roles are replayed and freedom remains suspended. The body becomes the surface on which these invisible structures inscribe themselves: a site of tension between conformity and resistance, between interior and exterior.
Within this logic, materiality plays an essential role. The choice to integrate textiles from the family home into the framing process introduces a tactile dimension of memory, suggesting that the past is not only represented but literally embedded. The fabric becomes an affective archive, preserving traces of gestures and time in a more intimate way than the objects
themselves.
Overall, the project constructs a meditation on how personal and collective histories infiltrate intimate spaces, generating subtle forms of control but also potential zones of resistance.
Exhibition view, "The Place that Forgets You", curated by Anamaria Gligor & Anne Marie Lolea, Gallery Studio 76, 2026.
Exhibition view, "The Place that Forgets You", curated by Anamaria Gligor & Anne Marie Lolea, Gallery Studio 76, 2026.
Exhibition view, "The Place that Forgets You", curated by Anamaria Gligor & Anne Marie Lolea, Gallery Studio 76, 2026.
Exhibition view, "The Place that Forgets You", curated by Anamaria Gligor & Anne Marie Lolea, Gallery Studio 76, 2026.
Exhibition view, "The Place that Forgets You", curated by Anamaria Gligor & Anne Marie Lolea, Gallery Studio 76, 2026.
Exhibition view, "The Place that Forgets You", curated by Anamaria Gligor & Anne Marie Lolea, Gallery Studio 76, 2026.
Exhibition view “In The Space Between Words”, Copeland Gallery, London, 2025.
Photo: Laura Bivolaru / Paulina Korobkiewicz
Photo: Laura Bivolaru / Paulina Korobkiewicz