Romania

Adina Pintilie’s multichannel installation emerges from her ongoing research on the politics and poetics of intimacy and the body. Amidst the global resurgence of right-wing ideologies, as well as to the growing polarities between people and between belief systems, Pintilie imagines a space of togetherness, beyond borders and binaries. Departing from a practice of community building, Pintilie’s idiosyncratic methodology explores the central role of intimacy in the everyday. Nurtured by long-term collaboration with the protagonists, the Romanian Pavilion is transformed into a contemporary cathedral that celebrates connections between bodies beyond any preconceptions.