Exhibition curated by Simona Nastac

Ioana Nemes work is a life time performance, a mapping of her physical and mental passage through time and space. The Monthly Evaluations project derives from a personal methodology of day-to-day self-evaluation, in an attempt to capture, objectify and assess her thoughts and experiences in an economically and socially unstable situation.

Living in a tiny flat in Bucharest, Nemes started to use a space of a few square meters on the wall of the dining room to document her ideas, wishes, plans and art projects, treating the wall as a locus of overlap of texts and colors reflecting her position in an infinite chain of given specifics and contingencies. Gradually, the wall changed into a diachronic scheme of thinking, perception, and action.
I discovered that the only material I possess and which did not depend on any producer, except life itself, is my time, says the artist. Past, present and future, divided into days, malleable working pieces susceptible of taking a visible shape.

Monthly Evaluations is an attempt at a symbolic order of space and time, through codes, imaginary landscapes and situations, capable of producing new possibilities of resistance to and freedom from contemporary insanity. Nemes project can only speak for her own experiences, but what it offers is a metaphor for her contemporaries and for the way we perceive ourselves, our surroundings, and our way of working given the situation in which we are living.

For further information, pictures, and interviews please contact Simona Nastac: simona_nastac@yahoo.com