SALON 10.0 – AN AFFECTIVE ARCHIVE
Dan Acostioaei, Ana Adam, Monica Ioana Aghion, Vusimusi Beauchamp (ZA), Lucian Bran, Lucian Brumă, Mircea But, Dan Cebotari (MD), Ciprian Ciuclea, Diana Drăghici, Juliane Eirich (DE), Gregor Eldarb (AT/PL), Tatiana Fiodorova (MD), Cristian Gafițescu, Dumitru Gorzo, Igor Grubić (HR), Pixy Liao (CN/US), Lolo & Sosaku (AR/JP), Bergthor Morthens (IS), Florin Niga, Stefan Panhans & Andrea Winkler (DE), Dan Perjovschi, Pusha Petrov, Patricia Rodas (FI), Nicolae Romanițan, George Roșu, Cătălin Rulea, Leonardo Silaghi, Cristina Simion, Katrin Streicher (DE), Ciprian Tokar (UA), Rebecca Topakian (FR), Mihail Trifan, Jeannette Unite (ZA), Andrei Venghiac, Dan Voinea.
Curator: George Pleșu
Assistant Curator: Dumitrița Moroșanu
Exhibition Design: Claudia Retegan
Exhibition Design: Claudia Retegan
Dec 03 – Jan 31, 2026
STATEMENT
In an era in which visual art is consumed at high speed – events unfolding week after week, images vanishing in the flow of algorithms – this exhibition proposes a gesture of slowing down. Salon 10.0 is not a retrospective in the classical sense. It does not aim to establish a hierarchy of the “most valuable” moments from a decade of activity, but rather to open an affective archive – living, subjective, imperfect – one that reconstructs a shared trajectory through the act of bringing works together.
The limited space of the gallery calls for a dense, layered, networked approach. The salon-style display, inspired by the historical model of vertical accumulation, is reinterpreted through a contemporary lens: the works are not isolated on white walls but mounted to create dialogues – tensions, complicities, visual contradictions.
Salon 10.0 is an affective map between worlds, a selection of works which, shown together, do not follow a chronology but instead trace a cartography of the visual thinking that has passed through Borderline over the years: from objects created on multiple continents to site-specific interventions conceived especially for Iași; from political or intimate registers to documentary fictions and personal archives. Ultimately, this exhibition is also a commentary on the process of archiving itself: on how we preserve, forget, reassess. Rather than a sealed box, the archive here is alive, visible, reactivatable.
Borderline Art Space has chosen to remain faithful to a simple idea: that contemporary art is not a luxury, but a necessity.
That a public does not come “already formed,” but becomes so over time – around dialogue and around questions that are searched for collectively.
For this reason, the exhibition is also a gesture of gratitude: toward the artists who believed in the idea; toward the curators and partners who brought vision and coherence; toward the public who climbed the slope toward Belvedere Street without knowing what they would find beyond the gate, and later searched for the entrance to the new space in the courtyard of Habitat Proiect. But above all, gratitude toward the belief that it is possible to build a living, transnational artistic community connected not only by geography but also by shared affinities and ethics.
Thus, Salon 10.0 is less a summary and more an exercise in reactivation. An affective montage of a shared time – with all its obsessions and recurring questions, with all its pauses and unexpected accelerations.
