“Stare deep into the world before you as if it were the void: innumerable holy ghosts, buddhies, and savior gods there hide, smiling. All the atoms emitting light inside wavehood, there is no personal separation of any of it. A hummingbird can come into a house and a hawk will not: so rest and be assured. While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the
true light’’
Jack Kerouac, The Scripture of the Golden Eternity
Light is the unifying principle of all eternities, dark is the very essence of it, starring into the powerful light makes you once again blind, in the purifying sense of the word. Like a new child of the world is born, in a state of total aesthetic awing. When we look at the light contained by an artistic image it can sometimes hurt. Maybe we are afraid that it is the last time we are able to look at it, trying to grasp it too hard… Or maybe we know that is actually not a pragmatic reality.
The exhibition transplants us into a fictional light scape. A strange, yet familiar place, potentially of the future, the past or even of the actual moment. Clearly dependent on human connection, it is a result of complex forces, pre-determined by the way we perceive the no longer opposing forces of light and dark. It is the need for aesthetic determination that guides us into the intimate universes created by the three artist linked by the same quest of a reclusive, displacive quest for the immutable luminescence.
Josepha Blanchet intertwines light and dark in a continuous flux of interior and exterior movement, body and space, fluctuations and stillness, using photography and video as a medium for a poetic transposition in which light is an aesthetic sign, sense and consensus of unity between material and physical substance.
For Silvia Moldovan, preoccupied by environmental philosophy, light and dark represent the totality of the world, its beginning and end, its end and its beginning, in a post-apocalyptical modernity in which the human, the New God of the destruction, brings to an inherent end the life as we know it.
Cătălin Petrișor, on the other hand, chooses a spiritual path and sees light as the connecting element of all universal beings, of the biblical God of all creations. His artworks become prayers, the process is one of becoming light and living an eternal life.
Blinded by light a vision is born
Artists: Josepha Blanchet, Silvia Moldovan, Cătălin Petrișor
Curated by: META Spațiu art gallery
Vernissage 10.1.2020 7 pm
Duration 11.1. - 25.1.2020
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