DARURI/OFFERINGS

This zine was made during LuciAna’s second exhibition ever called Daruri/Offerings, at Indecis Artist Run Space Timișoara, which took place from 26/11/2024 to 31/01/2025.

LuciAna is the artist duo formed by Ana Kun and Lucian Barbu in 2023. We focus on vegan activism, art therapy and other practices connecting to care and liberation. They share a common interest for publishing, especially zine making, while also catering for a small zine archive at Balamuc.

Its sewn pages are filled with materials that build on top of the body of work present in the exhibition. Half journal, half catalogue, it proposes a soft trajectory through peaceful offerings, championing for rest, introspection and sharing (and vegan mashed potatoes) as a way of resistance.

We bring you little gifts of peace we’ve found in everyday things: oneself’s liberation from crusty ideas, the little sounds of cracking paper, the small harmonies of working in a studio with a bright yellow table at the center of everything.

We bring you the joy of drawing on found paper, forgiveness and tiredness, and the struggle to remember and praise and sing what was, is and will be.

We bring you community chatter, the whispers and laughter of friendship, the smells of the soups and mashed potatoes of the communal meals, the light of planning for better days, days of rest and enjoyment, holidays. Being of good faith.

Produced with the help of Plan Zero Makerspace, Matrijarsija, and the Secret Garden Bookshop.