At the heart of P+4 Publications lies the experiences of locality, namely the stories and histories—some still silent, unrecognised or, further, forgotten—which shaped the grounds of arts and culture in Romania. Stirred by the encounters with seminal moments and gestures of Romanian art, photography and architecture after 1945, many of them unknown to international audience, the programme aims to create a transversal publishing platform which makes accessible such narratives in a close collaboration with artists and designers.
Our desire is to re-activate static archives, personal memories, and entangled temporalities.
They become storytellers—critical, investigative, and poetic, likewise intuitive—which present the story of art not as a continuous thread, and not as a final outcome. It shows how, using heterogeneous approaches in reading local emancipatory models of individual and collective resistance, radical practices and specific transnational exchanges, new questions are provoked. They call our attention to the way art should be gazed, read and interpreted by looking specifically at the experiences of locality.
P+4 Publications was founded in the frame of PEPLUSPATRU Association and is currently run by The Institute of the Present.