Installation with three groups of objects - CURTAIN, COLLAPSED TABLE, UNTITLED, included obejects made mainly from sea -weed and other natural materials and photographical images, participation to the Narcissus exhibiton, South Square Centre, Bradford, UK, 2006, curator: Gabriela Boiangiu
Curtain
This was a sort of organic sculpture made from sea-weed cushions growing around images of survivors from the 2005 tsunami from Thailand. 5 cushions were hanged on an elongated hanger forming a see-through, fragmented curtain.
One particular idea I was glossing on has been that on an object or an image left or an object that is reconstructed after a drama speak both about the past and the present, though from quite different points of view.
The object was exhibited as part of the Narcissus show at the South Square Centre, Bradford, UK.
Collapsed Table
This was an installation made also as a comment on the individual drama of those affected by the tsunami from Thailand choosing as its focal point the disruption of the coherence and order of a daily event such as the meal. The presented table was made from disjointed and suspended in space light and transparent plastic trays were both small quantities of food, spices and wine were placed together with elements of decoration such as red corals, ribbons or dried roses - all situated between hanging see-weed leaves and braids of different colours artificial hair.
On the wall, next to the "table" it was placed an image that was a digital photo-montage made from fragments of Manet's painting Dejeuner sur l'herbe layered with a map of seismic centres of Romania.
The installation was exhibited as part of the Narcissus show at the South Square Centre, Bradford, UK.
Untitled
It was an object made from sea-weed wrapped around a picture -frame and including artificial hair and black velvet ribbon that would hold the hair and the sea-weed together.
Though it was presented together with the other two works made starting form the Thailand tsunami, natural disaster, connected through the same materials used and same types of forms, it excluded any particular narrative element that would allude to the event, situating itself in that grey area of indecision of meaning were one or another information that is made available can change the perspective from an aesthetic view to a dramatic one or the opposite.
The object was exhibited as part of the Narcissus show at the South Square Centre, Bradford, UK.