Pavlina Mladenova: You are participating currently in a group exhibition entitled Beyond Credit - Contemporary Art and Mutual Trust in Istanbul, which is one of the significant events of Istanbul European Cultural Capital 2010, with curators Maria Vassileva, Iara Boubnova, Luchezar Boyadjiev. What is the nature of your participation in this exhibition?

Ileana Pintilie: As an artist, you are hard to pinpoint not only in the context of contemporary Romanian art, but also in the context of Central and Eastern European art. You started your work in the early 1970s during the Communist period. You have experienced the barrier of censorship and you have had difficulties to exhibit what you wanted (this made you withdraw from public life in the 1980s).

Katarzyna Pabijanek: My first question concerns the Women’s House (Sunglasses) project you started in 1998. It has just been shown at the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź (Practice Makes the Master, curated by Magdalena Ziółkowska). Could you say something about the background of the project and, especially, about its current Polish version?