RE:ENCHANTED BODIES is a call to reclaiming — an ongoing inscription into the history of resistance traced by Silvia Federici. It imagines forms of collective care for what is yet to come and dares to dream of a culture rooted in aliveness.

is a call for reclamation, a continuation of the history of resistance envisioned by Silvia Federici, the imagining of collective care for the future, and the dreaming of a culture of the living.

The exhibition “The Scorpion Snuff Box – a visual journey into a queer novel” proposes a revisiting of this history in a queer-surrealist dialogue with contemporary art, placing the queer experience on a historical continuum. The documentary section includes fragments of history preserved in the Spinnboden Lesbian Archive collection in Berlin. Through these documents, the lesbian universe of Weimar-era Germany is introduced, a time of liberalization that transformed the city into a true queer capital, up until the rise of National Socialism and the outbreak of World War II.

Artists:

Maria Balea, Traude Bührmann, Mimi Ciora, Diana Matilda Crișan, Ramona Dima, Georgiana Dobre, Simona Dumitriu, Katja Lee Eliad, Julio Elvisey, Yishay Garbasz, Daniela Groza, Tirdad Hashemi, Soufia Erfanian, Mia Imami Harrison, Alexandra Ivanciu, Anastasia Manole, Hortensia Mi Kafchin, Marta Mattioli, Stefania Meșteriuc, Marta Orlando, Ileana Pașcalău, Iulia Pordea, Orka, Clementine Roy, Sophie Utikal, Kjersti Vetterstad.

This project was part of the national cultural program "Timișoara – European Capital of Culture in the year 2023" and is funded by the City of Timișoara, through the Center for Projects. The exhibition is collaborative curatorial project based on research by Iulia Dondorici and Valentina Iancu; coordinator Elena Radu, part of the project Invisible Histories.

Photo-documentation © Identity Education & iubita

RE:ENCHANTED BODIES

May 2023

- group exhibition -

participation with the project Plan B in More Steps