SCAI
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CuratorCristiana Ursache
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DateSep 12 – Oct 1 2025
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Artist
Radu Carnariu
Mihai Grecu
David Lazăr
Cezar Mocan
Nicoleta Mureș -
LocationRezidența Artistică 110, Șona, Brașov
A pretext for confrontation. In a house in Șona, a witness to a rural world with slow rhythms, fragments of global realities gather: Lisbon, London, Paris, Madrid, and Iași. This overlap is not neutral; it generates dissonances, contrasts, and open questions. How can art be anchored in a world where territories, environments, and bodies are traversed by invisible, algorithmic forces? What does it mean to create in an age when technology can take on the role of author?
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The artists who participated in the research residencies organized in Berlin as part of the 2025 edition of the REZIDENȚA ARTISTICĂ 110 project have confronted these questions. Cezar Mocan proposes impossible landscapes, where visual beauty is doubled by a sense of unease: what remains real in a world where the artificial produces more “nature” than nature itself? Nicoleta Mureș analyzes the digital filters that shape our daily lives, transforming identity into a negotiable, fragile product, endlessly mediated. Radu Carnariu and Mihai Grecu explore the theme of food, both as a resource in its traditional sense and as collective memory, questioning the ways in which the future of food is dictated by technology and economy. David Lazăr reveals the blind mechanism of technology, which generates images regardless of the meaning or nonsense of the information it receives, thereby problematizing the illusion of algorithmic creativity.
Behind these discourses emerges a posthumanist perspective: humans are no longer the sole protagonists of the world but coexist with technologies, objects, and nature in a network of interdependencies. SCAI does not propose a naïve celebration of artificial intelligence but a critical reflection on how it rewrites the human condition—how it “attaches” itself to humanity in an almost imperceptible way, infiltrating our lives, clinging to us. If art once represented a space of uniqueness and singularity, it now unfolds in a field where images can be generated, identities simulated, and perceptions constructed.
SCAI does not offer reassuring answers. Instead, it invites critical reflection on our own relationship with technology and awareness of the fragility of the human position within an expanded ecosystem that transcends rural boundaries. An exhibition that highlights how art, even when carried by algorithms, remains a space of fertile unease and questioning.
Behind these discourses emerges a posthumanist perspective: humans are no longer the sole protagonists of the world but coexist with technologies, objects, and nature in a network of interdependencies. SCAI does not propose a naïve celebration of artificial intelligence but a critical reflection on how it rewrites the human condition—how it “attaches” itself to humanity in an almost imperceptible way, infiltrating our lives, clinging to us. If art once represented a space of uniqueness and singularity, it now unfolds in a field where images can be generated, identities simulated, and perceptions constructed.
SCAI does not offer reassuring answers. Instead, it invites critical reflection on our own relationship with technology and awareness of the fragility of the human position within an expanded ecosystem that transcends rural boundaries. An exhibition that highlights how art, even when carried by algorithms, remains a space of fertile unease and questioning.
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