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| Anemone by Gergana Ivanova & Ioana Țurcan 5:51 min. |
A found photograph from the 30s Bulgaria, activates an AI statement on same-sex relations. From analogies on perfect flowers, to invented languages and archive weddings footage, Anemone looks at the tools we create to adapt and survive while interrogating the "normalcy".
Ioana Țurcan is a farmer, interdisciplinary artist and cultural
producer with a formal education in Cinematography, Documentary
Filmmaking and Film/Video Production. Ioana’s medium-length documentary The Other Life of Charon (2015) was nominated for Best Short Film at the Romanian Gopo Awards and in 2021 and her fictional short film Empiric about
a young textile worker during the communist period in Romania was
presented at festivals widely. Ioana has also worked with experimental
formats and performative media, creating exhibitions for galleries and
public spaces on different ecosystem-related topics, such as
landscape-based identity, family constellations and the process of
adapting to ambiguous loss. In the past years, she has co-developed
local initiatives to foster access to art education and cultural
production, facilitating workshops on analog photography, creative
writing, contact sports and filmmaking.
Since 2021 she has been part of a
duo called Uncertain Space, dealing with topics of caregiving,
ambiguous loss, rituals and physical dependence. In 2022 with the
transnational artist collective, an office, she developed site-specific
activations presented at Documenta 15 (Germany), Fotograf Festival
(Czech Republic) and Centrul de Proiecte (Romania).