Day’s Growing/Ziua Crește
(Aluvial Artspace)

The exhibition “Day’s Growing”, coordinated by Aluvial Gallery, is imagined as a meditation triggered by the reality of the season we are in.

In the harsh winter months, the days are too short, the darkness too long, the energy too low, and the fatigue too great. During this period, however, hope comes from the awareness that the days are gradually growing longer.

This winter solstice turning point resonates very much with what is happening on a planetary scale. The broad social, political and ecological phenomena we are experiencing are somehow typical of the period of low energy, dark thoughts and depressive visions. Unfortunately, however, these man-made phenomena are not subject to the natural seasons, but it is human nature to believe that they will pass.

What gives us hope in this respect is that human society is part of nature and cannot forever act in opposition to it. Thus, like nature, humanity has valuable hidden resources. Once discovered, they will re-enter the circuit of life. When reactivated, the energies that lie dormant in society can help us to emerge from the season of darkness, of ugly talk that normalizes destruction, dehumanization and murder.

Looking at our collections is thus a return to the roots, a search in time, space and diversity for latent values. The bringing together of works of art and objects of other kinds (documentary, scientific, literary, ethnographic, etc.), thus a transdisciplinary approach, is specific to the Alluvial way of collecting. We are interested, on the one hand, in a broad spectrum of human creativity, and, on the other hand, in the expression and documentation of important phenomena in society and on the planet.

A selection of these objects will be presented in the exhibition as in a Kunstkammer, as fragments of an unwritten narrative, told only in a babble. It is time for this cabinet of curiosities not to be constructed analytically, in the manner of the positivism that seeks to dominate and exploit the world, but to be the repository of searches for the magical. The objects in the exhibition represent resources hidden in the roots of humanity, that we encourage to awaken.