| A Romanian-American-Mexican artistic dialogue |
| Opening Reception: May 21, 2026 | 6–9 PMArtist Presentations at 7 PM |
| BRÂNCUṢI GALLERY | ROMANIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE 200 E 38th St, New York, NY 10016, USA |
| Conceived as a polyphonic environment of memory, absence, and unstable narration, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, curated by Charles Moore, unfolds as a space where personal histories and political inheritances remain in constant negotiation.Drawing from Milan Kundera’s eponymous novel, the exhibition resists linear storytelling, instead proposing a fragmented constellation of images, gestures, and temporalities. Memory appears not as a site of preservation, but as a volatile structure—subject to erosion, distortion, and reassembly—while forgetting emerges as both rupture and generative condition.Within this shifting terrain, the works navigate the porous boundaries between intimacy and collective history, where displacement, ideology, and the instability of archives inscribe themselves onto bodies, materials, and space. Here, laughter does not resolve contradiction but sustains it—opening a space in which fragility, tenderness, and estrangement coexist. FEATURING ARTISTS: SALVADOR JIMÉNEZ-FLORESCARLOS GENOVADUMITRU GORZONICHOLAS GUZMAN ERIKA HARRSCHAURORA KIRÁLYHORTENSIA MIKAFKINVLAD NANCĂȘERBAN SAVUMIHAI ZGONDOIU Curated by Charles MooreMay 21 – June 19, 2026 BRÂNCUṢI GALLERYOpen Monday–Friday, 9 AM – 6 PM |
