Lockout Stereotypes. Counter-cliché Group show

Lockout Stereotypes Exhibition. Counter-cliché 

Curated by Andreea Căpitănescu, the exhibition presented the creations of artists Denise Lobonț, Margaret Abeshu (Norway), Mihaela Drăgan & Zita Moldovan, Silvia Trăistaru and Mihaela Cîmpeanu.

The exhibition brings together 6 women artists from Romania and Norway whose practices and visual dialogue aim to raise awareness of stereotyped mentalities and social segregation resulting from prejudice against Roma women as well as other minority groups. Lockout Stereotypes. Counter-cliché explores issues of equity as related to race, ethnicity, and gender, as well as multiculturalism, inclusion and urban education. At the core of the project is the motivation to fight against the double discrimination that Roma women systematically face (on ethnic and gender criteria). By centering on and promoting cultural activities around Roma culture outside stereotypes, we want to create a new perspective that encourages women to follow an artistic professional path.

The artworks comprise diverse artistic mediums from video installations to design sculptural objects and textiles following the artistic complementarity approach with the Ethiopian-Norwegian artist, Margaret whose artworks merge critical theory, fashion and art.

Evoking the particularities of a neglected minority culture, suppressed by the constant need to reaffirm the adversity of malignant truisms, the exhibition emphasized the belief that we are all the same.

Lockout Stereotypes is a Romania-Norway cooperation project, coordinated by the Art Media Events Studio Association (Ploiesti), with the participation of the 4Culture Association (Bucharest) and the Fiksdal Dans Stiftelse Foundation (Oslo), which will take place between September 2022 and April 2024 in the cities of Bucharest and Ploiești. 

Producer: AMES Association – Art Media Events Studio