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HISTORY

Raluca Popa
Romania, 2023
11 min.

Seasons change over Teufelsberg (The Devil’s Mountain) and over the ruins of war, buried underneath vegetation. New trees grow, a hawk flies past, a fire looms on the horizon.

Raluca Popa’s film does not only refer to the history of this truly fascinating place in Berlin — Teufelsberg (Devil’s Mountain), an artificial hill risen through the rubble of the Second World War, now forested — but also to the history of art. On the one hand, the artist is quoting Cézanne in her photo essay, drawing on some of the 80 pictures of the place trees reminiscent of the painter’s, as if hurrying vegetation to hide this great swelling of recent culture. On the other hand, in all its simplicity, the film reminds us of the fundamental dynamic of the photographic arts, that between the power to document reality and the pleasure of altering it. (Călin Boto)

Data proiecție și locație

Saturday, 30th of September | 18:30

Cinemateca Eforie, Strada Eforie 2
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Raluca Popa

Raluca Popa was born in Romania. She studied at Byam Shaw School of Art – Central Saint Martins (London, United Kingdom) and at the University of Art and Design (Cluj-Napoca, Romania). She lives and works in Berlin. She is a member of Collection Collective, an international art collection founded, owned and managed collectively by its own members, and of The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life, an initiative of Tranzit Bucharest.

  • Technical sheet
  • EDITING: Raluca Popa
  • SUPPORTED BY: Gaep Gallery, Bucharest

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