Dada City is the title of the third solo exhibition by Inês d’Orey at the Salgadeiras Contemporary Art gallery.
For this exhibition, Inês d’Orey develops a photography and video project based on research into the architectural heritage of the city of Bucharest, with text by Bernardo Pinto de Almeida.
This series explores the symbols of power structures in the urban landscape and architecture, and how they are influenced by the socioeconomic context, historical circumstances, and ideological shifts of each era.
It was Dan Popescu, a gallerist from the city, who described Bucharest as Dada City: a beautiful Dadaist palimpsest that layers various urban strata and a diversity of architectural styles, ranging from Beaux-Arts and Neo-Romanian to socialist modernism and post-war brutalism.
This series focuses on 20th-century modernism, a period of remarkable changes in Romania’s history that affected the field of architecture, including the graduation of the world’s first female architects.
Dada City reflects on the ever-evolving relationship between architecture and the society it serves.
