Liliana Basarab

TALENT IS NOT DEMOCRATIC, ART IS NOT A LUXURY (The Grasshopper and the Ant)

Actors: Petronela GRIGORESCU & Bogdan PĂLIE

Project design: Costel CHIRILĂ, Curator: Cătălin GHEORGHE

Glazed Ceramic (various sizes), website www.lilianabasarab.com/greierelesifurnica

video here (short version, Romanian language)

WALLS (the Unseen)

by Liliana Basarab & Tuomo VÄÄNÄNEN

cover & 20 pages insert for Idea (art&society) magazine,#48 2015, pag.40-62, http://www.idea.ro/revista/pdf/IDEA48.pdf

audio, 11'45'' (Finnish language only) Voice: Miika Salo here

Text based on workshops held with inmates in Vaasa (Finland) prison, autumn 2014.

© Liliana Basarab & Tuomo Väänänen 2015

ALMOST SAID AND HALF DONE (Prinz Ahmed)

by: Liliana BASARAB & Delia POPA. site-specific installation, cut out paper, 2015.

Part of ART ON DISPLAY #2 , October 15-25.2015, in shop windows in Bucharest's center. © Liliana BASARAB & Delia POPA

Calling Cards (Discrimination/Rasism), Postcards, A6, 2013

‘We might fall down or might stand up’ (title in progress) 2013, © Liliana BASARAB Special thanks: Larisa CRUNTEANU, Larisa DAVID, Nicoleta MOISE, Mihaela VARZARI Editing: Larisa DAVID, images: Bogdan Cătălin CAZACIOC, video here  

2007-2010, Sinaia (Romania, 2007), Bad Ems (Germany, 2008), Bucharest (Romania, 2009), Dayton (Ohio, USA 2010), websites by Costel CHIRILĂ

Truth/s, Dayton, Ohio, USA, 2011, Website by Costel CHIRILĂ. video here and website here Truth/s (Prawda/Prawde), Plohocineck, Poland, 2006,  video here Truth/s (Adevar/Adevaruri), Iasi, Romania, Chisinau, Rep. Moldova, video here, text here  

'Accidents, mutations and mistakes' ceramics, various sizes, 2008, © Liliana BASARAB text by Mihaela VARZARI here  

LUCK/ Do I feel lucky, do ya punk? Nov. 2012, Glosna Gallery, Poznan, Poland (solo show) Residency at MPRA Poznan Text by Liliana Basarab here, photos by Katarzyna HOFFMAN and Magdalena FRANKIEWICZ

'Adam & Eve / NeverEnding Chances' by Liliana BASARAB & Costel CHIRILĂ, animation, colour and sound, 30 seconds loop, 2009, link here, text by Mihaela VARZARI here

Performance, Iasi,(Romania, 2001) and Berlin (Germany, 2009), photos by Lisa GALLAWAY (1-6) and Catherine HEMELRYK (6-12)

'Hospitality/Hospitalities' Castellón, Spain, June 2007,  Installation, mixed media, work-in-progres, © Liliana BASARAB

by Liliana BASARAB & Costel CHIRILĂ, video, 2006, 5’00” © Liliana BASARAB & Costel CHIRILĂ, video here, Text by Catalin GHEORGHE here

‘Imagine Beauty! Define Beauty! Describe Beauty! ‘ Postcard project, work-in-progress, 2003-2004 © Liliana BASARAB Text here  

‘Une histoire du ciel/ A story about sky’ video, 3,10 min., 2006 Language: French, English subtitles, Voice: Emilie PITOISET, Editing: Romain SEIN © Liliana BASARAB / Le Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo, text by Cristian NAE here

‘Untitled / Et si tu n’existais pas’ 4’09”, color, sound, 2002 Camera: Matei BEJENARU, with: Liliana BASARAB and RO (Nicolae RADU), Editing: Liliana BASARAB, Sorin ARUȘTEI, © Liliana BASARAB