Văcăreşti
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- Vacaresti
- Văcăreşti
- 2006
- double channel video, color, sound and no sound
- 22min, 26sec
The Văcăreşti Monastery, which was built in Bucharest between 1716 and 1722, by the king Nicolae Mavrocordat was demolished by communists in 1985 as many other churches and palaces, symbols of the past were destroyed in those times. After the fall of the communist regime in Romania there were talks about reconstructing the monastery but nothing happened, not even marking in some way the former place of Văcăreşti, very few seems to remember the trauma. It's like a whole community of people don't have the ability to link with their own past. Now, where the monastery once existed, there are socialist ruins, a cheap market, a local community of gypsies living in improvised housing, an empty lake and big empty spaces. We went there and tried to draw, map, using wooden sticks and wire, the shape of the church. None of us saw before the real monastery and church. Quoted from: www.monavatamanuflorintudor.ro