Anca Poterasu Gallery at lítost Gallery, Prague 

Artists: Dragoș Bădiță, Irina Botea Bucan, Iulian Bisericaru, Matei Bejenaru, Megan Dominescu, Sebastian Hosu, Adelina Ivan, Aurora Király, Olivia Mihălțianu, Alexandru Solomon 

“…we had everything before us, we had nothing before us…” – Charles Dickens, ‘The Tale of Two Cities’, (1859) 

Anxiety, isolation, botox, inside – outside home economics, masks, postponed gestures, limits, outside limitations, horrendous times, physical spaces and digital seclusion. In Midst of the Worst, the Best of Times brings together a number of works that primarily reflect on the shifting limitations of our spaces and the bending of our perception of time caused by the unaccustomed realities brought forth due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The show revolves around the domestic and familiar, around the artists’ studios and their homes. With all the works made during the lockdown period, the presentation is systematized as a journal of changes, adaptations and reactions through which the artistic processes reveal intimate exchanges with the world at large