The exhibition of the artist Misha Diaconu, curated by Ana Negoita, can be visited at Kulterra Gallery until April 20, 2024.
“Fleinvær Stories transposes the sum of those visual experiences integrated by the artist during the months she spent on the islands from the Arctic Circle, that world totally disconnected from the urban tingles, which evokes introspection. The lands of Norway on the arctic border have a very special plasticity: austere, Moonlish, sheltered, but also populated with microscopic details; these were for Misha Diaconu a complex accomplishment of observation, of calibrating her personal visual repertoire with new ways of perceiving and examining the morphology of the new-fangled landscapes.
The artist proposes a visual survey that is based on a simultaneous process of zooming in – zooming out focused on the unexpected environment, through which the selection of a visual surface is produced, generating a new morphological scale, a different model of thinking about the proportion and architecture of her new pieces. This series integrates objects whose character have a miniature structure, where the focus falls on details, some strange, unreal, uncomfortable, tense, unnatural and nonorganic, although each form is inspired by an element of the nature of the Fleinvær islands.
The Nordic experience generated a series of conversions and switches in the artistic discourse, distinguishable by a process of detaching from the figurative, an interruption of the narrative line through the” form-character structure”, which was replaced by a type of an abstract plasticity, whose physiognomy is generated by a completely different kind of observation. Thus, the exhibition dispense works with contrived design, with simplified configurations, which speaks about, in a non-mimetic manner: the relief, shapes, rocks, vegetation and the light of northern landscapes. There is a nominated, striking tension between the organic constitution of these forms and their materiality, a dichotomy that can also be observed along the exhibition journey, which proposes an unusual scenography of artificial aquatic landscapes, populated by metallic organisms/bodies.
The exhibition, using staging perspectives and a narrative approach, calls for a multi-sensory approach through a complex visual installation, carefully connected to the space, which involves: object, sound design, light design and video projections. The artist’s intention was to create a pluri-sensitive space in which the viewer is fully integrated in her reinterpretation of the arctic landscape. The works surprise through tactility; each organism effuses, renders incompletely and distorted the reminiscence of a complex structure, of some epidermis-bodies reproduced in metal, with different alloys.
The Fleinvær Stories series recount, through visual structures, different spectrums of the unplumbed sensations and memories from a world where the austerity amazes the viewer by a complexity imperceptible for the inexperienced eyes.”
Ana Negoiță, curator
