A new exhibition, 'HomeAcasa' arrives at Leeds Art Gallery from Bucharest from Thursday 13 September 2007 until 28 October 2007. Two Romanian artists, Gabriela and Valentin Boiangiu, now based in Shipley and Leeds, build an interactive piece of art which is constructed, literally, from postcards they have invited people from around the world to send. The postcards, through image and text, convey personal views on what the concept of 'home' (which in Romanian translation is 'acasa') means to people of different backgrounds and cultures. Installed in the Gallery space in the form of a 'dwelling', with a specially commissioned soundtrack in collaboration with sound engineer Phill Harding, the exhibition seeks to visualise perceptions of 'home'. By displaying the trace of letters to and from home gives the exhibition a powerfully suggestive theme. Their artworks are loaded with the presence of those familiar and evocative signs of connection: handwriting, envelopes, names and addresses, postage stamps, postmarks and the stickers – 'Prioritar' and 'Par Avion'. The exhibition forms part of 'Trading Spaces' for Celebrate Leeds 07, a series of contemporary projects that explore a theme drawn out from the significance of the 1207 Charter in defining the origins of the modern city of Leeds in terms of 'trade'. The projects aim to inspire thinking about the idea of Leeds and its links with other places, imaginative and real, ideas of 'here' and 'elsewhere', based on ideas of trade and exchange. Romania, joining the EEC at the start of 2007, is one its the newest members. Please come to visit this exhibition and send us your views and opinions -- Gabriela&Valentin Boiangiu Home/Acasa Project 13 April-20 May 2007, Art Museum, Craiova, Romania 27 July-19 August 2007, HT003 Gallery, Bucharest, Romania 12 September-28 October 2007, Leeds Art Gallery, UK http://homeacasa.blogspot.com/
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