Sedimental — the 2026 exhibition
At the Bistrița-Năsăud Museum Complex, Sedimental brought together painting, drawing and mixed-media works. I was interested in the memory matter leaves on the surface: accumulations, coverings, traces and returns.
The exhibition brought together large and medium-sized works and a series of charcoal drawings made for this project.
“Sedimental speaks of what remains after time, after gesture and after repeated attempts to build, erase and move forward. Each work retains the memory of its own process.”
The exhibition opening
Film of the “Sedimental” exhibition opening, Bistrița-Năsăud Museum Complex, 2026 · 6 min 44 s.
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Artist’s statement
For me, memory is not clear and orderly. It settles in layers, unravels, overlaps, and resurfaces in different forms. In painting, this memory becomes matter, a trace, a scar, a restauration, silence. Each work captures something of this movement; not a confession, nor an episode, but a state of being that has passed through time and remained. The works naturally settled into several clusters that became the exhibition’s series: The Heavy Beginning, The Crossing, The Weight, The Pages Thin Out, Suspended Fragments, Dissolution. I did not conceive them as separate chapters, but as movements in the same inner journey, born from the need to hold together memory, vulnerability, and resilience.
Georgiana Cotuțiu · English translation: Raluca Hoza