Catinca Malaimare
Eight of Clubs at Performance Day, 2021

The third edition of Performance Day, Romania’s only event dedicated to performing arts. This edition of Performance Day, curated by Alex Mirutziu, returns at Centrul de Interes with five artists, a film, and three performances on the program.

Catinca Malaimare’s film Eight of Clubs |♣|, exhibited here in a performative reincarnation, is a film in which she manipulates a LED photography light with eight parts held together by a circular core, a shape similar to a spider or a withering flower. Malaimare tests the limits of her own anatomy during the performance, using the total reach of her body to handle the object’s limbs. This work generates a sensuous experience amplified by the sound of skin friction against the light’s artificial surface and the performer’s stare at the viewer through the screen.

Catinca Malaimare
Eight of Clubs, 2021.
Screen in screen projection with 4K monitor. Installation View at Centrul de Interes, Cluj. Performance Day 2021, 3rd edition.

Catinca Malaimare
Eight of Clubs, 2021.
Screen in screen projection with 4K monitor. Installation View at Centrul de Interes, Cluj. Performance Day 2021, 3rd edition.

Catinca Malaimare
Eight of Clubs, 2021.
Screen in screen projection with 4K monitor. Installation View at Centrul de Interes, Cluj. Performance Day 2021, 3rd edition.

Catinca Malaimare
Eight of Clubs, 2021.
Screen in screen projection with 4K monitor. Installation View at Centrul de Interes, Cluj. Performance Day 2021, 3rd edition.