The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Conceived as a polyphonic environment of memory, absence, and unstable narration, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, curated by Charles Moore, unfolds as a space where personal histories and political inheritances remain in constant negotiation.

Structured as a Romanian-American-Mexican dialogue, the exhibition brings together the works of ten artists: Salvador Jiménez-Flores, Carlos Genova, Dumitru Gorzo, Nicholas Guzman, Erika Harrsch, Aurora Király, Hortensia Mi Kafchin, Vlad Nancă, Șerban Savu, and Mihai Zgondoiu. Across these distinct practices, a shared terrain emerges—one shaped by migration, translation, and the layered experience of belonging across geographies.

Drawing from Milan Kundera’s eponymous novel, the exhibition resists linear storytelling, instead proposing a fragmented constellation of images, gestures, and temporalities. Memory appears not as a site of preservation, but as a volatile structure—subject to erosion, distortion, and reassembly—while forgetting emerges as both rupture and generative condition.

Within this shifting terrain, the works navigate the porous boundaries between intimacy and collective history, where…