Alina Serban: Recasting Process. Notes on a Research in Progress. The Work of Ana Lupaș

Alina Serban is a Romanian art historian and curator, co-founder of the Institute of the Present https://institutulprezentului.ro/en/about/ and P4 publishing house. Her extensive research focuses, among other things, on the relationship between conceptualism and exhibition practice in the 1970s and 1980s. In 2022, she was awarded the Igor Zabel Fellowship, and the jury particularly appreciated her ability to search for overlooked relations of artistic practice in Eastern Europe and to define new concepts that help to think about the art of the region.

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Recasting Process

Notes on a Research in Progress. The Work of Ana Lupaș

This talk reflects on a research-in-progress dealing with Ana Lupaș’s oeuvre focusing on few of her iconic projects some very well known to the public, some less encountered in the published literature. The exploration will evoke the role of international tapestry platforms in the internationalisation of her oeuvre and the radicalism of her post-1964 actions, installations and objects – some subjected to a long process of conceptualization and revisitation. Resisting interpretations, Ana Lupaș's work embodies a surprising ritualistic reasoning behind aspiring to reinvest art with an archetypal dimension and new ethics.