Delirium at Șoimii Patriei, by Ana Cretiu

When art wants to happen, it happens. Șoimii Patriei is the perfect example of how art really only needs viewers to exist. In what seems to be a 2 square feet room, a few dozen people gathered Thursday, October 15, to experience Postumia Rus’s Delir în 12 acte.

Young Postumia, using something as small as miniatures, managed to depict great struggles of the modern man, constantly torn apart between facade and essence.

As the curator of the exhibition (Madalina Surducan) puts it, “Postumia   Rus' s works refer to a delirium, a disturbance of conscience that is situated in the framework of identity and image, where a double constitutive game happens. Recovered through the others' eyes, one's identity becomes the sum of images that others have about him or her. The tension in between what one knows about himself and what others know about him - mediated by his image, arise when attitudes and actions that don't correspond with that image are revealed. In between extraversion and introversion, these miniatures capture the tumultuous state of an identity disequilibrium, a confusing and continuous game of what it is and what can be seen.”

What strikes about these works is the immense power they have despite their size. You can see pain, you can see doubt, you can see paranoia, you can see fear, you can see delirium. And you need not even squeeze your eyes, as the miniatures speak so loudly, one must only listen.