bellu&bellu
„Ce ne facem?“ –– „Că cam așa…“
2026
Exercises in Reading #8
Cacophony Studies #3
Calendar Studies #7
Wooden books, site-specific, Brădet (2019)
Curated by Intersecția_Emanuela Ascari
At RAFT, independent art space located within the Contemporary Art Library of the Transilvania University Multicultural Centre in Brașov.
The artist duo, Andrea Bellu and Matei Bellu, was in residence at Intersecţia in July 2019, producing a series of domestic interventions, including some wooden books displayed among the volumes of the house library.
The War Against Subsistence by Ivan Illich, 1981.
Resisting Left Melancholy by Wendy Brown, 1999.
The Politics of Climate Change Is More Than the Politics of Capitalism by Dipesh Chakrabarty, 2017.
Blasted Landscapes (And the Gentle Arts of Mushroom Picking) by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, 2014.
The wooden books are documents of our collective readings, a proof, of our bodies in time and space. The titles, however, raise questions then as they do now, whose answers we are still craving for…
