From Falling in Love to Falling Out of Love As part of the project "The Biography of Artist Couples • Co-creation and Identity," we are launching an interdisciplinary approach that combines art history with integrative therapy to help participants explore the concept of couples from a dual perspective: that of art history and psychotherapy. The biographies of artist couples can serve as a model for structuring and harmonizing energies in our relationship with a partner. Our fundamental development begins with the fusion relationship with the first attachment figure and continues with differentiation from this figure—a progressive process that leads to the maturation of the self. The couple's relationship unconsciously mirrors this process of maturation. This workshop aims to understand together the processes that build or dismantle a couple's relationship, using aesthetics and art history. We do not aim to bring couples to the discussion table but invite anyone who wants to change their perspective on relationships, whether thinking about a concrete situation or an ideal one. The event will take place over two workshops, part of the special program for the White Night of the Galleries, each lasting 3 hours, with a limited number of participants. Registration is based on reservation, here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/16Af1BUrvp71Fnj_srzHcZhN_uTfNHHH-LQ-6AUYJu8E/edit FALLING IN LOVE Friday, October 4, at 6:00 PM, we explore what falling in love means in a couple's relationship. "The Biography of Artist Couples • Co-creation and Identity" is a project implemented by ARCHÉ Association, in partnership with the Visual Arts Forum, D3M Association, the Center for Excellence in Image Studies at the University of Bucharest, the Faculty of History and Philosophy at Babeș-Bolyai University, the Multicultural Center at Transilvania University in Brașov, and the Czech Center Bucharest, with support from H'art Gallery, ArteVezi/Te vezi prin artă, Propagarta, thereart.ro and couplesbiography.com. The cultural project is co-funded by the National Cultural Fund Administration. The project does not necessarily represent the position of the National Cultural Fund Administration. AFCN is not responsible for the project's content or how the project's results may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the funding recipient.

From Falling in Love to Falling Out of Love As part of the project "The Biography of Artist Couples • Co-creation and Identity," we are launching an interdisciplinary approach that combines art history with integrative therapy to help participants explore the concept of couples from a dual perspective: that of art history and psychotherapy. The biographies of artist couples can serve as a model for structuring and harmonizing energies in our relationship with a partner. Our fundamental development begins with the fusion relationship with the first attachment figure and continues with differentiation from this figure—a progressive process that leads to the maturation of the self. The couple's relationship unconsciously mirrors this process of maturation. This workshop aims to understand together the processes that build or dismantle a couple's relationship, using aesthetics and art history. We do not aim to bring couples to the discussion table but invite anyone who wants to change their perspective on relationships, whether thinking about a concrete situation or an ideal one. The event will take place over two workshops, part of the special program for the White Night of the Galleries, each lasting 3 hours, with a limited number of participants. Registration is based on reservation, here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/16Af1BUrvp71Fnj_srzHcZhN_uTfNHHH-LQ-6AUYJu8E/edit FALLING OUT OF LOVE Saturday, October 5, at 11:00 AM, we explore what falling out of love means in a couple's relationship. "The Biography of Artist Couples • Co-creation and Identity" is a project implemented by ARCHÉ Association, in partnership with the Visual Arts Forum, D3M Association, the Center for Excellence in Image Studies at the University of Bucharest, the Faculty of History and Philosophy at Babeș-Bolyai University, the Multicultural Center at Transilvania University in Brașov, and the Czech Center Bucharest, with support from H'art Gallery, ArteVezi/Te vezi prin artă, Propagarta, thereart.ro and couplesbiography.com. The cultural project is co-funded by the National Cultural Fund Administration. The project does not necessarily represent the position of the National Cultural Fund Administration. AFCN is not responsible for the project's content or how the project's results may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the funding recipient.

The exhibition "Life is Beautiful" continues. The statement "life is beautiful" makes the experience of viewing Matei Udriște's artistic emotions all the more delightful for the audience "from the outside," as the "enormity" of this claim subtly contrasts with the atmosphere of Cabinet Gallery, where the clients of psychotherapy practices sometimes come to ponder the opposite of this idea. The artist's emotion is as sincere as possible, offered from an implausible and oddly innocent moral perspective, doubled by a well-defined artistic sensitivity. The idea that life is worth living has also been echoed by visitors at the end of guided tours. Although I curated this exhibition and attended several meetings in its atmosphere, I am still deeply struck by some of its possible derivatives: ironic-nostalgic, catastrophically hipsterish, seriously transgressive, playfully tragic, mature-juvenile. Those who have visited or purchased the artist's works have experienced or can re-experience beautiful rides on a scooter, a motorcycle, or a sports car, seeing themselves in a long, cinematic frame or witnessing the slow sinking of a plastic chair on a beach, where they arrived after wandering off course. The objects are the witnesses of the journey. They accompany us to reveal the perishability and futility of things. The futility of the useful. And the utility of the useless. A tape recorder, and an early Nokia mobile phone, bring back memories of a life where we may have encountered them or where our parents did, long before we were born. Or perhaps we were born but didn't do what we needed to do to see these objects differently. It leads to the clear question, "Would you stay with me in an MRI tube?" If so, why? And how? Ultimately, it's not the objects, plants, animals, landscapes, or portraits—fitting into a counterculture atmosphere of gaming, graffiti, cyberpunk, and tattoos, sprinkled with title-like phrases—that truly matter, but the form of discontinuity—the pause in the image, in time. For this pause to happen most optimally, contact with art is necessary. And for that reason, we invite you once again to an encounter in our gallery, Cabinet.