Living room memories “Nostalgia for the home decor typical of Romania in the 80s constitutes the starting point of these works. As a child, I was always fascinated by the multitude of hand-crocheted doilies and trinkets displayed all over the family living room, arranged so as to hide the poverty of the times. The dust marks left by the lace patterns on the furniture beguiled and haunted me at the same time. For a rather long time, I could no longer interact with such interiors, instead working with purified spaces, devoid of any excess. However, the need to revisit the past, understand it, and reactualize its traces, brought back to the fore this hazy background of memories of the family living room. Childhood experiences thus became my working tools, to which I’m giving a completely different destination today. Therefore, I oversized a series of doilies and replaced the fragility of the hand-crocheted string for the hardness of ropes, cords or cables used for construction. The dust formed on the floor of the gallery (by printing the doily model) invites the public to participate to its removal, recalling, in this way, my own gesture of erasing traces in the family living room“, Mihaela Moldovan.