The exhibition of Victoria Zidaru at the National Museum of Contemporary Art represents an artistic installation composed of textile and vegetable materials, objects made of linen or hemp filled with hay and dried aromatic plants.
Ruxandra Demetrescu, curator of the exhibition, writes: “The visual-haptic dimension is thus united with the olfactory one: long dried herb belts become what the artist calls “olfactory sculptures” or a “vegetal river” that the viewer is invited to cross, reiterating a primordial experience.[…] The name of the exhibition in itself, First Day, alludes to the Genesis and implies a visual projection of creation through a journey that starts intuitively and turns into a correspondence game in the fascinating realm of objects Victoria Zidaru envisaged and fabricated.
The installation occupies the central space of the fourth floor and the two side annexes. The artistic endeavor is completed with a sound background and two video materials by musicians and artists at the artist’s invitation.
The exhibition can be visited until March 31, 2024.
