Artist Talk | Personal Histories and Collective Memory

Join us for a special conversation with Erika Harrsch (Mexico) and Dumitru Gorzo (Romania), presented as part of the exhibition The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, curated by Charles Moore, on view at the Brâncuși Gallery through August 31.

Inspired by "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting", Milan Kundera’s famous novel, the exhibition brings together Romanian, American, and Mexican artists in a dynamic cross-cultural dialogue. Conceived as a polyphonic landscape, it explores memory, absence, and unstable narration as forces in constant negotiation. Rather than following a linear narrative, the exhibition presents a constellation of works that examine the fragile intersections between personal histories and collective experience, where displacement, ideology, and the instability of archives become inscribed onto bodies, materials, and space. Through diverse artistic perspectives, the exhibition invites viewers to reflect on how remembering and forgetting continuously shape identity, history, and our understanding of the present.  

In this context, artists Erika…