For You Can See No Other


Part of the group show TEORETICENȚE curated by Cutra Collective At Suprainfinit Gallery Bucharest, Romania, 2021.

Watch the video here alongside a text by Alina Soare




    There is something incredibly satisfying about the 3D revenge that Thea Lazăr brought to a two-dimensional history. Mirrors, the filmmaker fast-forwardly shows, have a long history of being an incidental accessory in paintings with female subjects – an indiscreet hint of frivolity and vanity. Only this time, the idea won’t remain a dead letter, but come to life as tableau vivant: an animated mirror detaches from a painting and, with the prose of Tai Shani and the poetry of Sylvia Plath acting as a voice-over, seeks a new consciousness.
Text by Călin Boto