The current exhibition presents a project by photographer Andrei Pungovschi that reinterprets today’s agora. In ancient times, the agora was the public space where two paths crossed every day: one was the world of ideas that formed the basis for contemporary democracy; the other was the world of commerce and merchants. 

Andrei Pungovschi reflects on the media’s framing of what happens in a specific place at a specific time. To this end, he photographs demonstrations in major cities and illustrates the clash of the above-mentioned worlds by drawing visual parallels between the current expression of democracy – the ability to protest – and more banal aspects of everyday life.

Pungovschi’s project is ongoing – over the past ten years, he has taken photographs in Serbia, Greece, Turkey, Ukraine, Egypt, Romania, Italy, Germany, France and Spain. A selection of images from Greece, for instance, was published in the Romanian online magazine Decât o Revistă (DoR) in 2012.