Lica Sainciuc

Directed by Moldovan director Eugen Damaschin, the documentary Moldova 89-91 presents the thread of events through which the neighboring state gained its independence with the collapse of the USSR. Thus, the film features politicians such as former presidents Mircea Snegur and Vladimir Voronin and former Deputy Prime Minister Iurie Rosca, along with many other witnesses and participants in the events of the formation of the Republic of Moldova as an independent state. And, of course, each of them has its own version of history.

The terrain between testing and exposure, observation and exploitation, is murkier than ever. Taking as a starting point graphic artworks imbued with phantasmagorical-erotic content, Vlad Druck captures - in a surrealist manner - nascent forms of nudity. This strategy of layering eroticism with animated drawings subverts the discourse and undermines the ostensible premise. It is a calculated risk, taken with a deliberate recoil: by emphasizing lasciviousness, Druck shifts the focus toward the mechanisms underlying the visual discourse - the extent to which it involves illustration, interpretation, and, above all, exploitation.