Indian Sari Meets Romanian Blouse

The “Indian Sari Meets Romanian Blouse” exhibition features formal wear, collectable garments, hand-woven, embroidered, or printed using ancient methods. Iulia Gorneanu is the curator of an exhibition organized by the Capital City Hall through ARCUB and sponsored by the Indian Embassy in Romania, which will be on display at the Gabroveni Inn – Arcelor Hall from June 8 to June 20, 2022.

“Indian Sari Meets Romanian Blouse” is a one-of-a-kind exhibition that presents a visual dialogue between one of India’s most recognizable symbols (the sari) and an iconic piece of Romanian culture (Ie – the Romanian blouse). Both the sari and the Romanian blouse are works of traditional living art worn for their intrinsic value, history of collective memory, the genius of artisans, and the memory of the women who created, wore, and passed them down. They are garments with a tremendous emotional charge that evoke feelings of nostalgia, fragments of personal history passed down from generation to generation, as part of a wedding or offered at significant life moments.

A garment from the beginning of the world, the sari expresses feminine fragility, grace and elegance. Considered the oldest unseen clothing, the sari illustrates the rich diversity of art Indian textiles, involving elaborate techniques of dyeing, printing, and hand weaving.

Anamaria Lazar, Collector

The exhibits are collectables curated by Iulia Gorneanu, an art collector and promoter of traditional Romanian culture, from her collection of ii and designer Anamaria Lazar’s collection of awards.

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The white shirt, called generic ”Ie”, encodes in the ornamental signs symbols from the Neolithic, revealing data on social status, age, membership in a particular community, prestige, and the connection with the unseen world of the woman who wears it. The shirt broke the border villages, becoming a piece of refined clothing, then crossed the borders of the country, becoming a statement all over the world.

Iulia Gorneanu, curator and collector

Are you in Bucharest these days? Pay a visit to the exhibition and attend one of the most interesting traditional cultural mixtures of the summer.