TOY JOY affirms creativity as a gesture of symbolic recycling. The artist operates with fragments of a global iconography to construct a personal, critical and reflective visual language.

The exhibition does not invite nostalgia, but analysis: what kind of humanity do we project onto objects? What kind of identity is formed through them? And how is joy transformed into a cultural code? The exhibition is thus configured as a meditation on material memory and the way in which childhood objects continue to structure and alter the adult imaginary.

Cristina Simion, curator