Invitro

Before Everything Disappears

Maria Guțu’s exhibition at Celulele Invitro | Bucharest | Malmaison.

March 13 - April 40, 2026

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Maria Guțu’s affinity for the tragedy and the grieving sigh of these people transcends time and space turning the right second, the camera, and the recording into weapons of memory. The fact that these photographs are taken in the Republic of Moldova is only a minor detail in the biography of the artist and of the protagonists; more important is that they speak of a reality intrinsic to human tragedy and to the immemorial uprooting brought about by social, cultural, and, above all, political factors. The estrangement from the familial and the familiar causes, in turn, unhealed wounds, existential fractures and sufferings. The subliminal end of the artist’s enterprise is interweaving remembrance with emotions by means of states of mind. The focus is the exploration of the border between wound and suffering which lies at the core of harmonious reconciliation or inexhaustible reflection like the white and the black developed on paper. The photographs become the throbs of a gravity by which Maria Guțu rediscovers herself, a gravity dipped into the colours and intimate memories of the passing of time.
Text: Alexandru Davidian
Translation: Bertha Savu

Maria Guțu’s affinity for the tragedy and the grieving sigh of these people transcends time and space turning the right second, the camera, and the recording into weapons of memory. The fact that these photographs are taken in the Republic of Moldova is only a minor detail in the biography of the artist and of the protagonists; more important is that they speak of a reality intrinsic to human tragedy and to the immemorial uprooting brought about by social, cultural, and, above all, political factors. The estrangement from the familial and the familiar causes, in turn, unhealed wounds, existential fractures and sufferings. The subliminal end of the artist’s enterprise is interweaving remembrance with emotions by means of states of mind. The focus is the exploration of the border between wound and suffering which lies at the core of harmonious reconciliation or inexhaustible reflection like the white and the black developed on paper. The photographs become the throbs of a gravity by which Maria Guțu rediscovers herself, a gravity dipped into the colours and intimate memories of the passing of time.

📸 Moments from the opening of POETRICKS (BIG AND SMALLS) by Stefano Calligaro, presented by UNA gallery (Piacenza / Milano) at INVITRO Cluj.

A poetic play with language, translated into visual and material form — including Poetrick No.2615 materialized as a wallpainting by Radu Comșa.

Stefano Calligaro is an artist and “poetry designer” whose work explores the transformative potential of language. Since 2019, he has pared back the eclectic aesthetics of his practice to focus entirely on what he calls Poetricks — a form of clandestine, ambiguous (anti)poetry, free from fixed interpretations and constantly questioning both the value of writing and the meaning of being an artist today.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for this sharp, witty, and collaborative reflection on what language can become.

📷 Photo credit: .dox / .studio