Conferences
Ion Caramitru: The Limits of Expectation
The exposé is based on the conference held in 1992 in the House of Commons in London and was designed to express the respect and gratitude for the families of those who fell in the Revolution and the revolutionaries. The conference retains the structure of the one from the beginning of the last decade, but it is updated, compared to nowadays and emphasizing the idea that nothing has changed since then and until now.
"If I look and remember my existence since I opened my eyes to life, more logically, more concretely - I have been in an eternal expectation. I was expecting something that, most of the time, was not being fulfilled, or was being fulfilled with shortcomings, or was leading to a horizon of more and more dramatic expectations. I waited when I was 7 years old - two days for my sister to return from a militia search, I waited two months for my mother to return after she was arrested with my father, and I have waited for two years, for the first time, after he returned from the first confinement. And again, I have been waiting for my life to change, for things to change, obviously, for the world to take on a more significant, more vivid outline, for the sky not to be leaden, but blue… ”.
Translated by Simona Nichiteanu