Interview | Pepa Ivanova: “I am eternally enchanted about the delta and love the care and perseverance of the people living there”
Citește interviul în limba română. My current interests would shock the fifteen-year-old me – as of the past few years, I am more and more curious about nature, and about our ways of interacting with flora and fauna and other natural elements, focusing on current or potential ecological crises. Inevitably, I discovered and closely followed the projects run by Qolony NGO, and was excited to hear about Hidrotopias, an art exhibition that explores the connections between water, people, other forms of life, and the infrastructures that govern these connections in Sfântu Gheorghe, part of the Danube Delta, through the eyes...
Interview | Armin Etemadi: “Human emotions travel more easily than cultural contexts, and cinema has a unique ability to translate those emotions without needing to explain them”
Citește acest interviu în limba română. As part of Films of Iran Experience, organized by the Iranian Romanian Network at the Romanian Peasant Museum Cinema, Romanian audiences had the opportunity to discover a selection of contemporary Iranian short films directed by women, exploring themes such as identity, memory, loss, love, and female resilience with remarkable sensitivity and artistic depth. Beyond showcasing films made by women, the event also became an opportunity for dialogue about Iranian culture and one of the world’s most celebrated cinematic traditions. On this occasion, I spoke with filmmaker, researcher, and feminist art critic Armin Etemadi, one...
Interview | Aqeel Abbas: “Neuroaesthetics changed my thinking. It drew me to the biological foundations of perception and prompted me to try scientific methods for artistic problems, regardless of how they compare to older ways”
Photo by R.M. Naeem Citește interviul în română The recent visit to the exhibition “The Shifting Gaze” at Celula de Artă, signed by Aqeel Abbas, functioned as a direct extension of the ideas articulated in this interview: a space in which “home” no longer appears as a fixed point, but as an unstable state shaped by movement, memory, and experience. Our conversation confirms that, for the artist, the idea of “home” is deeply influenced by the history of migration, by the personal experience of displacement, and by the tension between places. “Home” thus becomes a continuous process, an emotional and...
Interview | Tan Twan Eng: ”It’s essential to know history, especially now, when so many people in the world – leaders of nations, opinion-makers, politicians – are seeking to rewrite the past to fit their own agenda”
Writer Tan Twan Eng. Photograph by Tommi Chu Citește acest interviu în limba română. My first encounter with Tan Twan Eng’s writing was also the moment of impact and the impulse that made me want to interview him — to learn more about the motivation behind writing a historical fiction novel such as The Garden of Evening Mists. It was a pleasant opportunity to gain deeper insight into how the author views the act of writing itself, how he relates to memory — both individually and historically — and the kind of drive I believe literature can offer to help...