Hill. Reenactment represents a new sequence of Ioana Marinescu's long-lasting artistic research about the destruction of Arsenal Hill and the Izvor and Uranus neighbourhoods. The current project is developed in collaboration with Smaranda Găbudeanu and Iulia Mărăcine, produced by the PETEC association and supported by the group Cartierul Uranus (Costin Gheorghe, Cristian Văraru).

Through an approach that honours the mourning for the irreversible losses caused by the totalitarian interventions of the 1980s, the project proposes a visual and conceptual exploration of reconstitution in the form of a sculptural object, focusing on possible recuperatory and reparative directions. The attempted scale reconstruction of the former Arsenal Hill is not rebuilding, but a dynamic and affective collaboration in the present - an interaction that can be imperfect and indeterminate, resulting in an organism in constant transformation. This approach reflects on the collective effort and endurance required to construct not only a physical space but also a collective memory. The sculptural object was realized in a series of workshops with students from the University of Architecture and Urbanism "Ion Mincu", coordinated by Ioana Marinescu with architect Thomas Goodey.

In addition to the sculpture model of the hill, placed in front of the museum located inside the former People's House, the exhibition will include, on the 4th floor of the building, a documentary film by Laurențiu Calciu, which captures the process of creating the models in the workshops and the performative action on the opening day, which will be exhibited later to re-enact the collective meaning of the 'remaking' of the hill. A sound piece created by Maria Balabaș with Mihai Balabaș will discreetly accompany visitors in the museum's spaces, attempting to reconstitute in sound form a space that remains only in memory. The collective transportation of the hill is guided by the actress Katia Pascariu and the choreographers Andreea David, Smaranda Găbudeanu, Iulia Mărăcine and Eliza Trefaș.

Hill. Reenactment is part of a series of performative projects dedicated to displaced communities, initiated by Ioana Marinescu and produced by PETEC. The 'hill' object is based on a large-scale cardboard and paper model of Arsenal Hill - Paper Hill - made in 2019, in a workshop led by Ioana together with Thomas Goodey and the Uranus Neighborhood team at the University of Architecture and Urbanism 'Ion Mincu'. Presented in various contexts-exhibited at Casa Costaforu in 2019, at /SAC@Malmaison in 2022 (in the form of a jigsaw puzzle on wheels in the performance "In three days here the grass will grow..."), transported to London in 2023 in the Beaconsfield art space and used as a mobile installation in the performance "Past Present. Fragments of Memory"-the cardboard maquette, laden with the history of these successive uses, was once again restructured this fall in a workshop with student architects. The model served as the basis for realizing 20 negatives/matrixes, into which the pieces of the new hexagonal brick concrete hexagonal hill were cast.

These successive working processes are not only an attempt to reconstruct in-memoriam the cut-off hill and the demolished neighbourhoods but also to imagine a lost place. The crossing of the former flattened neighbourhoods with the object 'hill' proposes a collective assumption of this complex history and a symbolic reconstitution of the hill.