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THE SUN AND ITS DOUBLE

Mona Vătămanu, Florin Tudor
Romania, Belgium, 2014
5 min.

Up in the sky, the sun, and another sun, the other’s double. A simple superimposition invokes with all its strength the imaginary and poetics of anticipation, raising, at the same time, the problem of the double. What does the supreme singular represent for our culture of mass reproduction?

Nothing simpler than what Florin Tudor and Mona Vătămanu, our own Straub-Huillet, did: The Sun And Its Double shows exactly what its title suggests, the image of a sun accompanied by another, at first different, then slightly similar, different again, etc. Shot on 16mm, therefore benefitting from a materiality whose appearance seems untouched by digital tricks, the fantastical landscape, pictorial but concrete, invokes with all its strength the imaginary and the poetics of anticipation, raising, at the same time, the problem of the double. What does the supreme singular mean for a culture of mass reproduction? (Călin Boto)

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Sunday, 1st of October | 16:00

Cinemateca Eforie, Strada Eforie 2
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Mona Vătămanu & Florin Tudor

Mona Vătămanu (b. 1968) & Florin Tudor (b. 1974) have been collaborating since 2000, during which time their artworks were exhibited in numerous contemporary art galleries and museums around the world. Using film, photography, architecture, theater and painting, their art is often interested in the violence with which the political imaginary changes.

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THE SUN AND ITS DOUBLE

Mona Vătămanu, Florin Tudor | Duration 5 min.

Up in the sky, the sun, and another sun, the other’s double. A simple superimposition invokes with all its strength the imaginary and poetics of anticipation, raising, at the same time, the problem of the double. What does the supreme singular represent for our culture of mass reproduction?

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