ETERNITY AS ATTEMPT - within Romanian Creative Week
Venue | Turnul Goliei, 51 Cuza Vodă Street, Iași, RO
Visiting schedule | 15 - 26 May 2024, 12:00 - 20:00
Opening | Friday, 17 May 2024, 20:30
Curator | Marlene Herberth/KraftMade
Artists | Ana Maria Micu, Bogdan Gîrbovan, Ciprian Mureșan, Gabriela Vanga
https://romaniancreativeweek.ro/en/events/eternity-as-attempt/
Venue | Turnul Goliei, 51 Cuza Vodă Street, Iași, RO
Visiting schedule | 15 - 26 May 2024, 12:00 - 20:00
Opening | Friday, 17 May 2024, 20:30
Curator | Marlene Herberth/KraftMade
Artists | Ana Maria Micu, Bogdan Gîrbovan, Ciprian Mureșan, Gabriela Vanga
https://romaniancreativeweek.ro/en/events/eternity-as-attempt/
CURATORIAL STATEMENT
How do we mark time? We observe change as a measure of time passing. It’s the law of life, that when a living cell senses a capital threat, it multiplies. It wants to live forever. When a living cell encounters an environment it can thrive in, it tends to prolong its life. It wants to live forever.
Eternity is planted in our hearts, as we read in the Ecclesiast 3:11. It’s the most basic content of everything alive, physical and metaphysical. We have a reflexive need we cannot escape: to mark time, because we observe its passing. Sometimes we escape it by attempting to stop the moment, to stop change. Or we transgress time by stepping out of it through capital change, through complete transformation of our matter, that is, through healing.
Art and religion share the spiritual goal of eternity seen as ritualic attempt, as a bet. The Chosen one, who through their high vibrations and sensitivity walks into the dark caves of Plato to bring about the light of the soul – the artist, the doctor, the scientist and the priest, or the shaman (Alan Watts) – sometimes impersonated by a singular character, impregnate themselves with eternity’s light and the responsibility to share it to their communities. In the solitude of their chambers, the artist’s practice, similar to the monastic one, is an effort to reach the perpetual state of revelation, through ritual. They both attempt to find that moment that needs no change: the eternal perfection.
Through our worldly lens, we can be the public, the witness to change. But we may also be complicit to spiritual gestures, to the rites of passage, entering their realm, alowing silence, harmony, healing and nostalgia to warm up in eternity’s light. What does our existence mean from the eternal perspective? What do we do about it? As we paraphrase Blaise Pascal’s bet (1623-1662) – what’s your bet on Eternity?
How do we mark time? We observe change as a measure of time passing. It’s the law of life, that when a living cell senses a capital threat, it multiplies. It wants to live forever. When a living cell encounters an environment it can thrive in, it tends to prolong its life. It wants to live forever.
Eternity is planted in our hearts, as we read in the Ecclesiast 3:11. It’s the most basic content of everything alive, physical and metaphysical. We have a reflexive need we cannot escape: to mark time, because we observe its passing. Sometimes we escape it by attempting to stop the moment, to stop change. Or we transgress time by stepping out of it through capital change, through complete transformation of our matter, that is, through healing.
Art and religion share the spiritual goal of eternity seen as ritualic attempt, as a bet. The Chosen one, who through their high vibrations and sensitivity walks into the dark caves of Plato to bring about the light of the soul – the artist, the doctor, the scientist and the priest, or the shaman (Alan Watts) – sometimes impersonated by a singular character, impregnate themselves with eternity’s light and the responsibility to share it to their communities. In the solitude of their chambers, the artist’s practice, similar to the monastic one, is an effort to reach the perpetual state of revelation, through ritual. They both attempt to find that moment that needs no change: the eternal perfection.
Through our worldly lens, we can be the public, the witness to change. But we may also be complicit to spiritual gestures, to the rites of passage, entering their realm, alowing silence, harmony, healing and nostalgia to warm up in eternity’s light. What does our existence mean from the eternal perspective? What do we do about it? As we paraphrase Blaise Pascal’s bet (1623-1662) – what’s your bet on Eternity?
MEDIA REFRENCES
Florentina Toniță, ”O țesătoare de viață și lumină” - Artista din Botoșani care expune la cel mai mare eveniment dedicat industriilor creative!, 19 May 2024, stiri.botosani.ro
Splendida Baie Turcească din Iași devine un hub al creativității în cadrul Romanian Creative Week, The Woman
Florentina Toniță, ”O țesătoare de viață și lumină” - Artista din Botoșani care expune la cel mai mare eveniment dedicat industriilor creative!, 19 May 2024, stiri.botosani.ro
Splendida Baie Turcească din Iași devine un hub al creativității în cadrul Romanian Creative Week, The Woman
MY WORKS WITHIN THE PROJECT
Ana Maria Micu is a weaver of light and life in her work. In “The Easy Way to Heal Yourself” (2021) is a step-by-step metaphoric and magical solution on how to heal a person, the same way we would mend a broken object. Through a kintsugi like technique, the artist molds her persona in clay and impregnates her with healing light, into capital transformation of her matter. The repaired self is entirely different than the one before breaking. She is attempting to a redemption of her external self; she is attempting to transgress time. ( text by Marlene Herberth)
Ana Maria Micu is a weaver of light and life in her work. In “The Easy Way to Heal Yourself” (2021) is a step-by-step metaphoric and magical solution on how to heal a person, the same way we would mend a broken object. Through a kintsugi like technique, the artist molds her persona in clay and impregnates her with healing light, into capital transformation of her matter. The repaired self is entirely different than the one before breaking. She is attempting to a redemption of her external self; she is attempting to transgress time. ( text by Marlene Herberth)
The Easy Way to Heal Yourself, 2021, stop motion animation with clay and light, 1m31s, 310 stills, 3840 x 2160 px, no audio, AP from Edition: 3 + 1 AP
