Iomo Gallery presents the exhibition The Garden Of Earthly Discontents, a personal exhibition of the artist Emma Păvăloaia, curated by Gilda Ghinoiu.

The Garden of Earthly Discontents proposes a plural figurative discourse articulated along neo-surrealism, in which the landscapes of collective human tragedies are decorated with objects that refer to personal micro-dramas. Emma Păvăloaia integrates the remnants of personal experiences into her post-apocalyptic frames. Dismembered human bodies next to household objects – a bicycle, a tree, detergent bottles, and washing racks – are all collocated in sublunar orchards, mostly charred and populated with dysgenic plants and animals. The same realms that house the ruins of a defiant consumerist civilization become both purging spaces for the artist’s experiences and habitats for a wondrous new world, for an ecosystem of fragile and bizarre biotopes, the result of a new Creation” – excerpt from curatorial text

Emma Păvăloaia (b. 1993 Câmpia Turzii) She attended the University of Arts and Design in Cluj-Napoca where she obtained her license in painting in 2015. She continued her master’s studies in the same institution obtaining her master’s degree in 2018. She is currently the courses of the doctoral school of UAD. In her works, Emma Păvăloaia explores spatial and temporal liminal territories, geographies made up of hypnotic landscapes, enveloped in twilight atmospheres, but especially the way in which the human psyche relates to supernatural realities.