Often, four voices are too few to turn the complexity of a musical composition into a rich auditory experience. But in the visual field — especially one defined by artistic trajectories — four minds are more than enough to build a personal, unique world, grounded in the synapses formed through a natural, organically developed dialogue over a relatively short period of time. The dialogue fragment above reveals some of the intersections of thought — ones that hint at a complex scenario, wrapped in mystery, whose full unraveling would be unnecessary. The afternoon of time becomes the central space, where each passing minute acts as a transfusion of information, nourishing the emergence of new ideas. Thus, the group formed by artists Dragoș Bădiță, Codruța Cernea, Roberta Curcă, and Andrei Nuțu explores this dual temporality (the “afternoon of time”) through multiple registers — dialogue, debate, reaction, collegiality — placing time and melancholy at the heart of their artistic discourse. The ephemeral quality of melancholy, layered over this dual temporality, emerges in the excerpts above, often echoing the tone of guild-like gatherings. The slightly surreal atmosphere, enriched by narrative gaps, grants the viewer-reader the freedom to imaginatively enter the exhibition’s melancholic dynamic. — Norbert Filep