Adriana Chiruta
The Kiss
They remained glued to each other for more than 5 hours, in the sun, in the rain, inseparable, ecstatic and indifferent to all that was happening around. Bodies of love in a choreography of an extreme tenderness. Absolute masters of kiss. Nature was showing again as a huge space of performing arts or as an art gallery in which uncountable and refined non-human artworks are happening all the time. This reinterpretation of the theme of the kiss with a snails couple questions again all the narratives about human superiority in terms of performing love and respecting the finesse of the world.
The Kiss was previously presented in PAV, Sibiu, 2022, in Touch Nature at SAC Bucharest, 2024 and Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, 2025.
Love as political power
Presented either as audio intervention in public space (PAV, Sibiu, 2022) or as a video work at Suprainfinit Gallery in Bucharest as part of Love as political power or how to rewrite our future with our breath in TRIUMF AMIRIA. The Museum of Queer Culture 2022, this is a fragment of a postmaterial performance with an unlimited number of performers. Started in 21.02.2017, it was inspired by this idea of Ludwig Wittgenstein:
”How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life.”
1st Game: 1% of Love
Can Sibiu gather 1400 photos of hugs and kisses by the end of November?
Would you like to be part of this collection with the ones you love? Join a collection of hugs and kisses with your dear ones by sending us your images.
If we reach 1400 photos they will feed into a future artwork.
Will we make it? Or not?
Sibiu has a population of almost 140000 inhabitants. 1400 is just 1% — far more than the 0.07% of Romania’s GDP devoted to culture, but not too much to dream of.
2nd Game: The Kiss Game
This is one of the few 100% collaborative games of today, rooted in the conviction that we need far more training for love — and far less for hate, blind competition, and war. In the form of a Love Lab and a durational art experiment for the public, it is dedicated to couples ready to embrace their own splendor and to transform their love into a work of art.
The Kiss Game was launched in February 2025 at the Rumänisches Kulturinstitut Berlin, during Romanian Game Night — “PlayLab: Art in Motion, Stories in Play.”
