Wiped Out, Gavril Pop

In his performance titled Wiped Out, Gavril Pop transfers the meanings of a 11th-century Chinese poem that talks about the nine stages of the body's decomposition over the idea of language. The pages of the personal notebooks from the early school years are systematically wiped out. The notebooks are witnesses of the intellectual acquisitions that later became automatism and suffered successive transformations. Some have faded over time, others have been the basis for future knowledge. The artist thus questions the role of guided learning in personal becoming.

The pages are brought to the "livid stage", described by the poem as the first stage of the human body's decomposition. The information gradually disappears as a tabula rasa process, to leave space for the restoration of the innocence of a mind in the early years of life.

This performance is the first in a series that will present all nine stages described by the Chinese poem.

Curator: Maria Orosan-Telea

Photo credits: Dana Dohotaru, Ciprian Chirileanu