Mind Set Art Center is delighted to present Andreea Medar’s installation Leftovers from the Future at Project Room. This work serves as an introduction to the artist’s solo exhibition Since the Wood of Your Window Has Been Blooming, concurrently on view at Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, offering audiences a deeper, multi-faceted perspective on Medar’s artistic practice. Sponsored by CMC Culture Foundation, the exhibition will be on view from March 8 to May 24, and we sincerely welcome your visit.
Leftovers from the Future is the second chapter of the Solarium: The Foreverl Garden project, which explores the horticultural traditions and cultural heritage of Lăcăuți, a village in Romania on the brink of disappearance due to population outflow. Through the act of reenactment, Medar constructs a post-apocalyptic spiritual garden, reviving her grandfather’s garden as a means to reconnect with familial memory and seek equilibrium between the past and the present.
In the first chapter of Solarium: The Eternal Garden, Medar reconstructed her ancestral garden using meticulously hand-sewn plastic materials. In this second chapter, she documents the state of the garden one year after her grandfather’s passing. Although her family has long ceased practicing horticulture, vegetables continue to sprout in the overgrown land—an enduring testament to the resilience and persistence of tradition.
The work draws inspiration from the oldest building in the village, dating back to 1726, and evokes the intimate atmosphere of the ancestral home—an edifice that once served as a school, now abandoned since the passing of Medar’s grandmother, Elena. By employing hand-sewn plastic techniques, the artist weaves together fragments from different periods, symbolically preserving lost traditions, such as the art of hand-sowing seeds. The choice of plastic as a medium also resonates with a local custom: villagers covering their ancestors’ hand-sewn textiles with transparent plastic tablecloths, an act that delicately encapsulates the last vestiges of protection and remembrance for their heritage.
