Casa Vintilă Brătianu, BUCHAREST, ROMANIA

Over seven evenings, Threads of Light unfolded as a sequence of performances within Casa Vintilă Brătianu. The house became a space for holding presence, attention, and shared time. Visitors entered, stayed, listened, and allowed the narrative to reveal itself gradually.

Alongside the performances, Andra Clițan developed two textile installations as part of the project, extending the same material and conceptual research into space. Constructed in wool and shaped through processes of handwork, they translated the language of the garments into spatial forms, allowing the work to exist beyond the body, as structure, surface, and presence.

Rather than functioning as scenography, the installations formed an integral part of the experience, holding their own temporality within the house and creating points of encounter between material, light, and movement.

For MA RA MI, this project continues an ongoing inquiry into textile as language, where garment, body, and space meet, and where heritage is not quoted, but carried forward through material intelligence and making.

The costumes, designed by Andra Clițan, draw from the MA RA MI textile universe and from traditions rooted in Maramureș. These references are not illustrated, but translated, carried into contemporary forms through material, structure, and restraint.

Threads of Light exists through trust: between the house and the artists, between craftspeople and performers, and between those who crossed the threshold and chose to remain present.

With gratitude to Casa Vintilă Brătianu, the Maramu Project, the craftsmen, collaborators, and all those who entered the space and carried its memory forward.