Introducing the Residents of Sleeping Beauty

The Sleeping Beauties of Amara:

An architect explores the legacy of seasonal holidays in totalitarian countries and authoritarian regimes – Blazej Ciarkowski [PL]

The Sleeping Beauties of Borsec:

A video artist uses the camera obscura technique to recover fragments of vanished or transformed spa landscapes – Andrei Dudea [RO]

The Sleeping Beauties of Eforie:

An artist, curator, and activist reimagines the relationship between space, community, and living archives through sound – Šárka Zahálková [CZ]

The Sleeping Beauties of Eforie:

A video artists, performer, and drone pilot explores the untold stories of everyday objects, from postcards to towels – Silvan Hagenbrock [DE]

The Sleeping Beauties of Govora:

A Welsh artist investigates how power, belonging, and memory are inscribed into the landscape – Mez Kerr Jones [UK]

The Sleeping Beauties of Herculane:

An artist and comic book author explores the ambitions of modernity and the relationship between water and building materials – Emma Casadevall Sayeras [ES]

SLEEPING BEAUTIES is a multidisciplinary residency project on collective care in Romanian balneary resorts. Designed and developed by EUNIC Romania, it involves six cultural institutions operating in Romania – the British Council, the Czech Centre, the Goethe Institute, the Cervantes Institute, the Polish Institute and Fundația9, each engaged in supporting one residency.

The project was developed in collaboration with curator Ilinca Păun Constantinescu, and is now in its third edition, following “Flowing Streams: (which explored water as a social connector) and “Reclaiming Post-Industrial Futures” (which focused on post-industrial heritage).