Museum of Intimacy

13/09/2023

Poate ca cel mai vulnerabil moment.

24/07/2023

"For me, intimacy resides in the subtle intricacies of the minute moments, the delicate interplay of emotions, the tactile sensations of textures, and the graceful curves of form. I find intimacy in the profound experience of existing on the edge of identity crises, dwelling in the liminal space between nothingness and awareness, where I transcend the confines of being a defined somebody and embrace the liberating notion of being a nobody. I learn to understand and appreciate my own complexities, fears, and strengths. I confront my own perceptions of beauty, body, and self-acceptance, breaking down the barriers that often constrain our understanding of intimacy. The process is a means of celebrating my individuality and embracing the complexities of my identity. Intimacy, as I experience it, is not bound by time or space but is an ever-unfolding exploration of the self in relation to the universe."
Jayesh Bhosale, 32, Mumbai

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10/07/2023

We are now on TikTok as well🙃

319 likes, 2 comments. “Follow us: Ig: museumofintimacy One of our favorite parts from Manuel Vilas, Ordesa”

12/05/2023

One of our favorite readings.

29/04/2023

Multumim Ioana Florescu pentru invitatie.

“Acum la 30 cred că intimitatea e disponibilitatea noastră de a-l putea asculta pe celălalt și de a fi acolo în distanță sau apropierea potrivită pentru noi și pentru el, fără să simțim că trădăm ce avem noi mai de preț, și anume pe noi.”

Cred că prima oară am auzit despre Museum of Intimacy la începutul pandemiei, în primăvara lui 2020. Mi se părea interesant conceptul, întrucât perioada aceea a fost una vulnerabilă pentru noi toți. Percepția despre normalitate ne-a fost schimbată în perioada…

31/03/2023

Lovers, when they fall in love, live together and love each other, they create a language of their own, this particular language, full of neologisms, inflections and semantic fields and subtexts, has only two speakers. It begins to die when they part. It dies when they find another partner, inventing new languages. There are millions of dead languages.

Excerpt from Manuel Vilas’s Book, Ordesa.

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16/03/2023

The end goal of intimacy is to build. To build and build until we reach skyscrapers, megacities, bridges across the deep ravines we see all around us. The sight of the trees and the hawks is painful. But back into the jungle, we must go. If we stay too long in the places we build, we will remain stagnant, at peace in the quiet cool breeze of an air-conditioned, white-washed apartment.”

Oliver, 22, London

Check our link in the comments to read this beautiful and quite provoking essay on intimacy.

13/03/2023

https://museumofintimacy.com/en/stories/intimacy-ends-with-memory

"Intimacy is beautiful, dangerous, seductive. It masquerades as warmth and comfort but it can be anything but that. It can draw us into the sweeping tides of pain and suffering with a touch so deft that we can hardly remember how we got here. But without it, those living, breathing, thinking things we call humans are nothing." (Oliver, 22, London)

Read our latest essay on intimacy and the importance of letting go of familiarity and comfort.

13/01/2023

Dar adevărul e că nu știu, nu mă prea pricep, am atâta teorie și pic la practică. Și asta e okay. Nu fac tot ce ar trebui să intre în gama grijii de sine și învăț să nu mă învinovățesc pentru asta. Învăț și că să-mi raționalizez emoțiile nu înseamnă să le simt. Și că e în regulă să-i spui cuiva cm te simți, chiar dacă asta înseamnă să fii vulnerabilă și să recunoști că nu ești acolo unde voiai să fii, emoțional și psihic.

Beatrice Cretu,

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12/01/2023

Nu prea te învață nimeni cm să ai grijă de tine. Mă uit la pisica din parcare, ea știe cm să se ferească de rele, cm să ceară mâncare și iubire. Poate dacă sunt drăguță mă învață și pe mine?

Citeste eseul intreg de Beatrice Cretu aici:
https://museumofintimacy.com/self-care/coconul-de-siguranta

09/01/2023

Scriu despre frici, despre incertitudini si despre lucrurile care ma dor. Daca le vad in fata ochilor, sunt reale, exista. Nu am raspunsul de fiecare dats. Dealtfel, asta e una dintre cele mai importante lectii invatate la terapie: uneori nu trebuie sa stii totul, ci sa iei fiecare zi ca atare.

13/12/2022

Every meaningful, durable self-care act requires you to put in the work. The process may not always be pretty, it may even get tiresome at times, or force you to toy with your biggest fears, but I can only assume it is worth it.

No matter the name, whether it’s self-care, wellness, self-love, well-being, or whatever the internet decides is trendy, the core of the issue will undoubtedly remain the same. Taking care of oneself requires perpetual effort: building your interior piece by piece, starting from a solid, (as stable as possible) foundation. Sure thing, obstacles may occasionally pop up to try to topple your construction.

https://museumofintimacy.com/self-care/building-blocks

25/11/2022

"In my conversations with my mother, self-care is an evergreen theme. She always talks about how I need to take care of myself, or no one else will. In Romanian, it sounds patronizing and demanding. More as an ultimatum than a thought born from care and genuine intentions. An aggressive warning about all the things that are going to happen if I won’t take care of myself. The only problem is that we believe that we talk about the same thing when, in fact, we don’t. We operate with totally different definitions of what self-care means. For me, it's about having a comfortable life, in the most bourgeois way of understanding this."

A new essay on self-care. Check our website!

Lucretia Lixandru
https://museumofintimacy.com/self-care/my-antihero-and-iȚ

Do less. Allow yourself to do fewer things. Allow yourself to say no to things and people just because you don't want them at that moment in your life. Allow yourself to not feel lazy or behind when you don't overwork yourself and wear your job as a badge of honor. Allow yourself not to take pride i

13/11/2022

Îmi place mult formatul de meme “Stop embracing hustle culture and start embracing whatever tf this is”, simt că ăsta ar trebui să fie un reper pentru self-care.
Și sună plictisitor pentru că am crescut cu Effy Stonem și ochii ei hipnotizanți disociind în fața camerei, pe fundalul unei petreceri. Și probabil că ne mințim singuri crezând că putem scăpa de tendințele de autosabotare peste noapte.

Rebeca Oanță, 23, Cluj

Îmi place mult formatul de meme "Stop embracing hustle culture and start embracing whatever tf this is", simt că ăsta ar trebui să fie un reper pentru self-care. Și sună plictisitor pentru că am crescut cu Effy Stonem și ochii ei hipnotizanți disociind în fața camerei, pe fundalul unei pe...

04/11/2022

Chess and Emily are a couple over 4 years who moved together to a village in the UK. When they got the intimacy questions from the museum, they were on a hike in Romania, and answered the questions live in front of each other before writing it 🌸❤️❤️❤️

Their story continues more extensively tomorrow on the museum. And it’s incredibly heartwarming.

Stay tuned✨👀👀👀



Stay Tuned!

29/10/2022

You should know, I’ve been a good girl and followed my treatment for two months in a row now. I prescribed self-care to myself like it was an over-the-counter medicine. My pills were, yes, common things that common self-caring people do.

https://museumofintimacy.com/self-care/self-inflicted-care

20/10/2022

"Poate self-care e atunci când refuzi să mai accepți stegulețe roșii în viața ta. Sau poate self-care e atunci când vezi o pisică și te bucuri că te ocolește, pentru că nu ești un om rău, dar în lume nu exiști doar tu și e bine să vezi o vietate cm își setează vigilența ca self-care."

Elena Simion, 25, Iasi

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Tu cm definesti iubirea de sine?
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Poate self-care e atunci când refuzi să mai accepți stegulețe roșii în viața ta

09/10/2022

Grijă de sine. Nu sună a self-care, în engleză e mai blând și sună a mângâiere. În română vine cu câțiva zimți. Totuși, auzi de multe ori ai grijă de tine. Ori spus în grabă la finalul unei conversații, ori în mijlocul ei atunci când e evident că nu ai grijă de tine. Uneori auzi și ai grijă. Nu te-ntrebi de ce sau de cine, e clar că tu te subînțelegi. De la subînțeles până la înțeles e o cale puțin mai lungă.

Mihaela Munteanu, Bucuresti

https://museumofintimacy.com/self-care/self-whatever

Tu cm definesti grija de sine?
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04/10/2022

"I do not yet know whether I have attained self-care.
I seem to generally throw away any trace of self - a corrupt form of self-care I partake in is listening to others; the 'caring' aspect comes in the form of me feeling strong, a solid rock against the currents and a safe place for others who are stuck in the mire. "

Irina Balcu, 23, Bucharest

https://museumofintimacy.com/selfcare-stories/a-purer-form-of-care

How do you define self-care?
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28/09/2022

☀️Lately, we've all been talking a lot in different ways about self-care/self-love and this whole anguished process we go through that promises to heal us. We talk because maybe if someone sees our pain, it will hurt less.
We spoke because we don't know what to do with the emptiness left to us by those we have lost. Self-love is complicated, especially when the self is not very well defined and each of us does what we can to make it a little better, and bearable.
☀️Your stories can heal.
☀️Write to us at [email protected]

Join our open call! Can self-care exist without being in a relationship/ connection with others? How selfish are we allowed to be? How do we nurture this love?

27/09/2022

We started a new discussion topic in the Museum: self-love.
As you are used to, we will try to cover this topic with the help of our readers and specialists.

Why is self-care giving the world the best of you instead of what is left of you? Alexandra, assistant lecturer in eighteenth-century British literature at UB, and who teaches the history of the care of the self (how cool is that?), replied to this question with an essay.

Read the full essay here. Alexandra Bacalu

Self-care has been reduced to little more than a show of status and an excuse for ever-increasing materialism. Self-care has also become a gateway to emphatic forms of self-indulgence and individualism.

26/09/2022

Not answering the phone for a month,
Going on a trip all by myself
Add to cart my favorite face cream
Sharing a post from mytherapistsaid on my wall
Doing therapy for who knows how long
Start eating healthier
Does it sound familiar?

All ways of loving ourselves are valid.
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But what if there is no self in this love?
Can self-care exist without being in a relationship/ connection with others? How selfish are we allowed to be? How do we nurture this love? We hope we can answer to these questions in the following weeks with various specialists.

In the meantime, we await your surprising and fragile definitions of what this process means.

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