BENEFICIAL NOSTALGIA

MATERIALS

silver, wool, photo slides

EXHIBITED

Mar 2023 - Romanian National Literature Museum

WORDS

Ioana Cristina Casapu, Mihaela Caravan

PHOTOGRAPHY

Laurian Ghinitoiu

Beneficial Nostalgia captures the comfort and well-being enclosed in loving memories. The piece symbolises how evoking positive memories in a ceremonial manner can work as a resource to cope with negative mental states or emotional roadblocks.

Keeping these memories in one’s mind’s eye (and close to one’s heart – as an intimate reminder of welcoming refuge in difficult times) serves as a kind, empathetic and loving way of cultivating nostalgia, and allegedly attending to its restorative effect on the body, mind and spirit.


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