In a fast paced society, where anxiously producing and consuming images has become the norm, the female artists Aleksandra Chaushova, Teodora Cosman and Ada Muntean have decided to take it slow, focusing on the quality of the experience of making art, as an act of meditation and devotion, rather than a means of producing aesthetic objects.

In “Slow Art: the experience of looking” Arden Reed considers art as a “dynamic, intimate encounter between object and observer”. The artwork is seen as a performative act where the beholder is invited to “perform” static objects (such as paintings, drawings, photographs etc.), which over time become events, “animated” by the observer’s imagination.

The body of works presented here is the result of such an intense and slow (and regular, and repetitive) observation, whether there are Aleksandra Chaushova’s minutiously drawn “self portraits”, or Ada Muntean’s ex-static representations or yet Teodora Cosman’s light studies.

The exhibition is hosted by Espace Intermédiaire, an independent art space in Brussels, coordinated by the artist of Romanian origin, Teodora Cosman.