The frame of Andreea’s enquiry is marked by significant economic, social and human rights crises under the last decade of the Ceausescu regime. In the absence of vernacular documentary photographs of everyday life from that period, the generation of children coming of age faces a problematic relationship between their memories and the representation of those memories in the public space, impacting their ability to come to terms with a difficult past under dictatorship. 

Moreover, post-1989 intentional oblivion adds to the challenges of - in slow memory terms - bringing the past into the present, deepening the memory crisis. Andreea investigates how other art forms, sensory capacities, and oral histories as slow memory methods can contribute to the reconstruction of memory to reclaim the past through a counter-narrative, personal and family lens and bring it back into collective memory.