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PINK CODE
TRACE. PARTICLE. WAVE.
Opening: September 29, 6:00 PM
End Time: October 13
Artists: Diana Otet
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Scrutinized under intense light, seemingly commonplace scenes attain a surreal quality. Strength of light translates into fluidity of matter, dissolution of contours and reduction of forms to their visual essence. All these, in turn, end up rendering visual reality unexpectedly uncanny and phantasmal. In the peak of summer, somewhere like on a busy beach, on the banks of a river or in a flowery garden, colours become intensely saturated, silhouettes get lyrically blurred and simple actions gain an almost mythical quality. Under sunny, clear skies, a crowd of people having fun by the sea -a spectacle which is in itself, socially and visually, both banal and exceptional- attains an apocalyptic quality; a man in a boat becomes a kind of primordial scene; the pink, yellow or green tones of a flowing river or of a steep, forested seafront shimmer in ways that give them a fantastic appearance.
Diana O?et’s works from the Trace. Particle. Wave series draw inspiration from these transfigurations of reality carried out by light and light induced reverie. Oily pastels, which possess at the same time wax-like fluidity and dust-like granulation, seem particularly adequate for capturing this apparent fluidity and uncanniness of reality; their physical characteristics also allow them to allude to the paradoxical nature of light itself. The exhibited works are the results of the artist’s attempt to visually circumscribe the melting together, under the straightforward magic of light, of matter and dream, of reality and fantasy, of the commonplace and the mythical. (Bogdan Iacob)
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