THIS WILL FEEL LIKE A STRANGE AND WARM EMBRACE

Codruța Cernea & Roberta Curcă

March 30 - May 13, 2023

The exhibition brings together over 20 recent works on paper by the artists Codruța Cernea and Roberta Curcă. The visual dialogue formed naturally, without premeditation, as a continuation of the conversations the artists have been having in recent years. Characterized by a distinct purity and a sensible rigor, the works exhibited reveal similar interests in the observation of landscape, the passing of time and the coexistence of universal sphere and individual dimension in the fluid and uncertain present.

The works made by Codruța Cernea for this exhibition, explore the extraordinary-normal world that is always surrounding us, both inside and outside. She builds comfortably-strange realms, with symbolically charged elements and views from timeless spaces or spaceless times. The medium (watercolor on paper) is the perfect choice when it comes to representing such reflexive and otherworldly places: it retains a kind of lucid neutrality while its transparency reveals the pigment stratification, thus communicating sincerely and openly. In Codruța’s images, repetition is reoccurring as a central element, this fact leading to an association with both the idea of relations and its counterpoint of solitude. It can either be a relation between two worlds, or that of a single world with itself, expressed through techniques as gentle and warm as an embrace.

THIS WILL FEEL LIKE A STRANGE AND WARM EMBRACE installation views

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Photo credits: Adrian-Alexandru Neculcea