I'm feeling better day by day! : catalin burcea

I'M FEELING BETTER DAY BY DAY!

The observation of local and international socio-political transformations involves an artistic commitment that places art at the level of an active instrument for the formulation of critical opinions on the governing systems with a very important social role in shaping socio-political orientation. Art instrumentalization is not a foreign concept of political regimes throughout the historical turmoil, but art as a critical anti-system tool, assumed individually or by groups of artists and women artists comes as a relatively recent reality in the consciousness of art practitioners and beneficiaries. The artist is a person of his / her time who can act as a filter of collective uncomfortable realities, relying on a clear positioning towards social and political mechanisms, without exhausting his/her role unidirectionally.

Catalin Burcea’s recent project, I’m Feeling Better Day by Day!, assumes the post-modern comment on the repetitive mechanisms, on the routine and the sense of failure subordinated to the political power that decides and creates contexts for individual and collective destinies. Alienation, absence as moral and intellectual gap, endurance and absurdity in preserving power positions and the illusion of power, social frustration and inadaptation, denounces through video, print, painting, object... the loss of meaning, the consequences and bantering process. Irony structures this desolate landscape of a civilization swallowed by cheap political utopias, by an infantile and maniacal imaginary from which someone is trying to get out. The Exit, increasingly illegible, gives you the alternative of uprising or that of silence. There is a philosophical direction in the artist’s approach asking in desolation: where to? I‘m Feeling Better Day by Day! is an ironic-depressive statement of those whom beyond an inner state of victimization caused by external factors, call for connectedness and an almost unexpected wake-up call. (Olivia Nitis)
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