B5 AiR 2024
B5 Studio – Artist in Residence Programme
The aim of the 2024 international residency program of the B5 Studio in Târgu Mureș was to explore the complex relationship between the artist and the curator.
After the curatorial turn, artistic content is created and mediatised on a number of levels. The curator takes a more creative and active role – working not from outside the artistic process, but from an internal perspective. And the artist, who has long been a curator of him/herself and of other artists, of other contents and platforms, is always finding new roles for him/herself. Contemporary art transcends the context of the exhibition, but it does not abandon its original forms of realisation, and collaboration is a recurring motif at many junctures.
While collaboration in this project materialized in different ways and through various types of interactions, thematically, the project gained a strong local focus—an aspect inherently embedded in the residency program format.
The group exhibition at MAGMA presents video installations and sound works, alternative publications and conceptual maps, drawings, texts, and video pieces created during the residency periods.
All four projects on display are connected to the context of Târgu Mureș, though they approach it from different perspectives: some focus on the dynamics of bilingualism and translation (Hu-Ro), incorporating the Roma perspective into this complexity and tracing the linguistic filter of reality; others investigate local relationships with water in the collective, mental, and physical space or seek to capture subtle connections and layers of complexity within the everyday, seemingly simple or ordinary narratives.