Starting from this question, the exhibition CUSUT CU AȚĂ ALBĂ explores the ambiguous territory between truth and deception, trust and doubt, the need for certainty and the impossibility of attaining it. It is a deeply personal investigation by Irina Dragomir that nevertheless extends beyond the boundaries of autobiography, becoming a commentary on the world we live in.

The artist identifies three sources of distrust: interpersonal relationships, reality mediated by technology, and beliefs lacking a rational foundation. Of these, the first remains the most painful. We can give up social media or question the information that assails us, but distrust of others threatens the very possibility of human connection. Suspicion may protect us from disappointment, yet it can just as easily condemn us to loneliness.

Irina Dragomir’s visual universe translates these tensions into an exuberant language populated by unusual characters, familiar symbols, and absurd situations. Intense colours, bold contrasts, and compositions with pop-art influences create an aesthetic of visual seduction beneath which uncomfortable questions lie hidden. Works such as Don’t Forget to Like and Share and I Have a Selfie Addiction, Mr. Freud! question the performance of authenticity in a society obsessed with its own image, while People Lie and Doubt explore the fragility of truth in human relationships.

The exhibition also marks a departure from the conventions of painting. Collages made from recycled materials, textile interventions, and three-dimensional objects—including the surprising series Dogs with Pretzels on Their Tails—expand the artist’s visual vocabulary through experimentation and play. This diversity creates a productive paradox: an exhibition about distrust becomes possible precisely because of the artist’s growing confidence in her own ideas and means of expression.

In Irina Dragomir’s work, humour functions as a mechanism of revelation. Irony makes the truth bearable and invites us to recognise the absurdity of our own bad habits. Held Together with White Thread seeks neither answers nor a monopoly on truth. Rather, it invites us to examine our certainties, accept the limitations of our own judgement, and understand that doubt is not necessarily the opposite of trust. Sometimes, it is precisely what makes trust possible.