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Layer Artist-Run Space
Calea Griviței 101

Layer is an artist-run space recently inaugurated inside Cool Cat, a venue already known for its openness to urban culture, artistic dialogue, and experimentation. The space was conceived as a platform for contemporary artists, emerging voices, and independent practices, with a focus on relevant and timely projects. Layer is not merely an exhibition showcase, but above all a meeting ground and arena for the confrontation of ideas, where audiences and artists alike are invited to take a stand and engage in dialogue. Located in an emblematic and accessible spot in the city, Layer functions as a meeting point between visual art, community, and everyday life, encouraging flexible formats – exhibitions, installations, performances, discussions – and relying on authenticity and collective energy.

At the Margin

INSTALATIE


Tip eveniment
DESCHIS si la NAG
Perioada Expozitie
02.10.2025 - 16.10.2025
The exhibition brings together two distinct yet complementary voices. Ana Șpeu explores the stories of children often reduced to silence. In her works, vivid and saturated colors veil hidden realities: poverty, trauma, and abandonment that become normalized. Chromatic contrasts generate tension between appearance and truth. Radu Burduj (Cool Cat) departs this time from his usual colorful palette, choosing monochrome painting in the grisaille technique to construct a dreamlike universe. Through satire and visual humor, he reveals the absurdities of a society that minimizes children’s suffering. Both share a passion for portraiture, seen as a vehicle of identity and human fragility. The exhibition functions as a small artistic manifesto, addressing enforced silences and inviting the public to critical reflection. The project offers an intense dialogue between color and monochrome, vulnerability and irony, confession and satire. Its social engagement and manifesto-like aesthetics support the spirit of the NAG event, which aims to make ignored realities visible.