24 Hour Party People is the focus exhibition of the White Night of Galleries in Bucharest, now in its 19th edition. The project scans the time period 2000 - 2020 as it was recorded, digitally or on film, by a group of people who can be identified with what we would call proto-hipsters today, and at the time (one of) the coolest people in town. Girls and boys, with cameras always at hand, all having the same voracity, energy and availability of the 20+ year old to live and record day and night the city that Vlad said we all loved to hate. Did we really love to hate it? Bukresh, the 2020.ro platform, feeder.ro, freshgoodminimal, Omagiu magazine, the Rokolectiv festival, Ota, WEB club, Control or Martin, many many many place names, blogs, web pages and conjunctures, one more special than the other, were created, discovered and lived in Little Paris transformed into Little Berlin by this heterogeneous community, which is currently still alive and scattered in the most unexpected areas of society. 24 Hour Party People is not an invitation to nostalgically browse through a memory album, but rather a visual exercise to remind us all that good times pass, but also bad times. The worst times, like the good ones, always pass. Change is our tragedy but it is also our hope. It is an alternative form of reenactment of moments lived, when day and night were an eternal loop of events, when we were never alone. Is there nostalgia in this type of revisiting hard drives that may not work the next time they are activated or scanning films that have started to lose their color brilliance? In the discussions I had now with some of the girls from that time, also present in the exhibited photographs, the idea circulated that this exhibition should be called COLLAGEN. This magic word that expressed so well what we had (obviously) all noticed: OMG how young we were! Should age be the only trigger that would give us this nostalgia?