SAD MAD OR BAD

Produced & Curated by Medina Pop
Commissioned by POINT

Scenography: Heracleea Lateศ™
Sound Design: Nikita Dembinski
Graphic Identity: Mihai Bumbu

Special thanks to RUS Collection for lending several historic artworks for the show.

๐€๐ƒ๐Œ๐€๐‰ / ๐€๐๐ƒ๐‘๐„๐ˆ ๐ƒ๐Ž๐‘๐Ž๐๐€๐๐“ฬฆ๐” / ๐‚๐‘๐ˆ๐’๐“๐ˆ๐€๐๐€ ๐๐„๐“๐‘๐„ / ๐ƒ๐„๐‚๐„๐๐€๐‹ ๐’๐‚๐‘๐ˆ๐๐€ / ๐ƒ๐ˆ๐€๐๐€ ๐Œ๐€๐“๐ˆ๐‹๐ƒ๐€ ๐‚๐‘๐ˆ๐’ฬฆ๐€๐ / ๐„๐‹-๐Š๐‡๐€๐Ž / ๐…๐‹๐Ž๐‘๐ˆ๐ ๐Œ๐ˆ๐“๐‘๐Ž๐ˆ / ๐†๐„ฬ๐™๐€ ๐๐„๐‘๐๐„๐‚๐™๐˜ / ๐‹๐€ฬ๐’๐™๐‹๐Žฬ ๐…๐Ž๐‘๐‘๐€๐˜ / ๐‹๐”๐‚๐€ ๐…๐‹๐Ž๐‘๐ˆ๐€๐ / ๐Œ๐ˆ๐‘๐‚๐„๐€ ๐’๐”๐‚๐ˆ๐” / ๐๐€๐ƒ๐ˆ๐๐€ ๐’๐“๐Ž๐ˆ๐‚๐€ / ๐๐ˆ๐Š๐ˆ๐“๐€ ๐ƒ๐„๐Œ๐๐ˆ๐๐’๐Š๐ˆ / ๐•๐‹๐€๐ƒ ๐๐€๐๐‚๐€ฬ†

Monday: Closed
Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday: 6pm-11pm
Thursday - Sunday: 11am - 11pm

โ€œWe declare that personal freedom and autonomy is both a right and good, but we think anyone who exercises that freedom autonomously is โ€˜sad, mad or badโ€™. Or all three at once.โ€
โ€” How to be Alone, Sara Maitland

๐–๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ž๐š๐ง ๐ญ๐จ ๐›๐ž ๐š๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐š ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐ญ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ง๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง? ๐‡๐จ๐ฐ ๐œ๐š๐ง ๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ž ๐š๐ฌ ๐š ๐ญ๐จ๐จ๐ฅ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐œ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฅ๐Ÿ-๐๐ข๐ฌ๐œ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ? ๐€๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐œ๐š๐ง ๐ฐ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐š๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ก๐š๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐ž๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ข๐ฌ๐จ๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง?

๐’๐€๐ƒ ๐Œ๐€๐ƒ ๐Ž๐‘ ๐๐€๐ƒ challenges the binary between two intertwined yet opposing conditionsโ€” loneliness and solitude. Being alone or / and being lonely. It seeks, both in the extremes and in the middle, a speculative space for revaluation, connection, or reconnection, as well as a possibility to rethink and recalibrate what we understand by autonomyโ€”acknowledging its traps but also its necessity.
Loneliness is not a monolithic experienceโ€”it is dynamic, evolving, multifaceted, and constantly shaped by contexts, whether general, external, independent, distant, or individual, intimate, internal, and self-generated.
Relying on the generosity and pervasiveness of the subject, the curatorial approach strains forms and expressions of loneliness, emerging in spatial, domestic, or communal structuresโ€”disjointed, fragmented, irreparable, or, on the contrary, harmonious, induced, applied, cultivated, and necessary.
Ultimately, ๐’๐€๐ƒ ๐Œ๐€๐ƒ ๐Ž๐‘ ๐๐€๐ƒ explores ๐‹๐Ž๐๐„๐‹๐ˆ๐๐„๐’๐’ as a space of tension, transformation, and, ultimately, choice.

๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ด

Luni: รฎnchis
Marศ›i: รฎnchis
Miercuri: ย 18:00-23:00
Joi-Duminicฤƒ: 11:00-23:00

๐‚๐ž ๐ขฬ‚๐ง๐ฌ๐ž๐š๐ฆ๐ง๐šฬ† ๐ฌ๐šฬ† ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ข ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ขฬ‚๐ง๐ญ๐ซ-๐จ ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ž ๐œ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ž๐ฑ๐ข๐ฎ๐ง๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐šฬ†? ๐‚๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐จ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฎ๐ซ๐šฬ†๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐š ๐ฌ๐šฬ† ๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐œ๐šฬ† ๐๐ซ๐ž๐ฉ๐ญ ๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ ๐œ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐ฌฬฆ๐ข ๐š๐ฎ๐ญ๐จ๐œ๐ฎ๐ง๐จ๐š๐ฌฬฆ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ž? ๐’ฬฆ๐ข ๐ขฬ‚๐ง ๐œ๐ž ๐ฆ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ ๐ ๐šฬ†๐ฌ๐ข ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐š๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐ขฬ‚๐ง ๐ž๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐ญฬฆ๐ž๐ฅ๐ž ๐ง๐จ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ง๐ž ๐๐ž ๐ข๐ณ๐จ๐ฅ๐š๐ซ๐ž?

๐’๐€๐ƒ ๐Œ๐€๐ƒ ๐Ž๐‘ ๐๐€๐ƒ provoacฤƒ binaritatea dintre douฤƒ condiศ›ii รฎnfrฤƒศ›ite, dar opozabile, โ€žsingurareaโ€ ศ™i รฎnsingurarea. Singurฤƒtate ศ™i/sau solitudine. Se cautฤƒ, atรขt รฎn extreme, cรขt ศ™i รฎn mijloc, un spaศ›iu speculativ, al revalorizฤƒrii, al conexiunii sau al reconectฤƒrii, dar ศ™i o posibilitate de a regรขndi, de a recalibra ceea ce รฎnศ›elegem prin autonomie, admiศ›รขndu-i capcanele, dar ศ™i necesitatea.
Singurฤƒtatea nu este o experienศ›ฤƒ monoliticฤƒ โ€” ci una dinamicฤƒ, evolutivฤƒ, multifaศ›etatฤƒ, constant modelatฤƒ de contexte โ€“ fie ele generale, exterioare, independente, รฎndepฤƒrtate, fie individuale, intime, interne, auto-generate.
Mizรขnd pe generozitatea ศ™i generalitatea subiectului, demersul curatorial solicitฤƒ forme ศ™i trฤƒiri ale stฤƒrii de singurฤƒtate, izbucnite รฎn structuri spaศ›iale, domestice sau comunitare, dezacordate, fragmentare, iremediabile sau, dimpotrivฤƒ, armonice, induse, aplicate, cultivate, necesare.
รŽn cele din urmฤƒ, ๐’๐€๐ƒ ๐Œ๐€๐ƒ ๐Ž๐‘ ๐๐€๐ƒ investigheazฤƒ ๐’๐ˆ๐๐†๐”๐‘๐€ฬ†๐“๐€๐“๐„๐€ ca spaศ›iu al tensiunii, al transformฤƒrii ศ™i, รฎn definitiv, al alegerii.