Bad Colours @ Visual Kontakt Laboratory

Bad Colours, the recent project of Visual Kontakt Gallery, Oradea, focuses on the homophobic phenomenon in the traditionalist and mainly orthodox Romanian community, where the LGBT still raises many conflicts.

The approach of the exhibition is ironic, seeking to question this contemporary reality: “The project creates a visual and conceptual “staging” in an ironic and even parodied manner of a homophobic festival, set in a vast exhibition space. The exhibition is a complex installation, harmonized in the smallest details, of two-dimensional and three-dimensional works which convey harsh realities connected to collective mentalities, which are looked at with a satirical eye.” (Ada Muntean, Visual Kontakt curator)

“The Bad Colours project invites us to experience neutrality. The abolishment of a conflict takes the form of a rebellion which grows quietly until it uses up its own resources. The cluster of objects in a limited space entices different forms of public manifestation, anticipating at the same time the vapid end in the cold war of the sexual species: a meaningless battle and an absurd debate, the occurrence of which is attributed to the contrasts between the conventional and the unconventional.” (Olimpia Bera, Ph.D., Visual Kontakt curator)

Here are some of the works:

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