Through simple lines and few colours – black and rarely red – you can experience emotions that you carry in you, in us, in our past as humanity. The symbols are depicted through animals, expressions and gestures of the characters and contribute to the realization of some substrates of the narrative of the scenes. Thus, the story behind each drawing is not completely revealed, but invites you to discover it. Without strong colours or loaded textures, Sorin Ilfoveanu builds a discreet, sunset world, and carries in it intense contrasts.

The contrast lies in the complexity of the message and the simplicity of the image. Through just a few penetrating lines, the artist talks about fights, dance, love, joy, death or sadness. So much intrigue in such quiet images.

Let your imagination run wild with them and allow yourself to build your own story around what you feel in the presence of the Levant. You can use the power of the word. This is what ten Romanian writers did. They got carried away by Sorin Ilfoveanu's drawings and wrote inspired by them. Thus new pages that you can browse in 10 x 5 encounters in the Levant were born.

The Levant is a mystery. In the past, it was a remote place. Today it has become a state.

You have in front of you an exhibition that challenges you to meet the Levant and let yourself be inspired by its atmosphere. You are invited to intuit the world from the drawings of the artist Sorin Ilfoveanu, and then to return to the interior, to your own experiences.

Curator, Cristiana Ursache