We are excited to welcome you on June 9th, 7 pm, at the Smiling Back at Strangers - 10 years of Lateral ArtSpace book launch. The event will be hosted at 2 Coriolan Brediceanu st., 1st floor, Timișoara, in the presence of Cristina Curcan, Lucian Indrei, Jan Motyka (DE) and Dragoș Bădiță. The event will take place in English.
Smiling Back at Strangers is the first publication about Lateral ArtSpace, an artist-run initiative from Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Produced in 2022, the book compiles the visual diary of the trajectory made by Lateral ArtSpace since it was founded in 2012, until the day of the publication. The book is meant to offer visibility to the invisible work behind an artist run initiative, the social engagement it sustaines and human connections it nourishes. It is only meant as a case study, not to be mistaken for a generalization of how artist-run spaces operate but an insight of a specific initiative, in a specific country, at a specific moment in time.
Jan Motyka (DE) is an art director, photographer and conceptor based in Berlin. He is responsible for the graphic design of the publication Smiling Back at Strangers. janmotyka.de
All (friends and strangers) are welcome! Looking forward to seeing you!
