Combining organic shapes precisely designed by nature into a hybrid which becomes a distortion.
Fellow deer bones, casts of diverse joints from the human body and a dismantled saddle, 700 x 450 x 500 mm.
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Fellow deer bones, casts of diverse joints from the human body and a dismantled saddle, 700 x 450 x 500 mm.
Exploring absurd reactions caused by the atrocities of the war. I used a printed image placed on a glass table, lit from below. I cut the interior of the eye and poured milk and ink inside.
Constructing a geometric interpretation of the eyeball starting from the icosahedron and the dodecahedron. Process drawing before constructing a wooden structure. 841 x 594 mm, watercolour.
Wooden interpretation of the human eyeball. Creating an itimate space inside it that would allow the participant to explore the sight and to be one with the eye instead of observing it just as an object. The structure was brought to London and used as a 'camera obscura' in the city.
Observing the spreading of light from two sources, 594 x 841 mm, sepia ink.
Observing how a flat in Golden Lane changes from dusk till dawn influenced by light. Left - daylight, right - artificial light during night, 841 x 594 mm, watercolour.
1:10 interpretation of volumes in a flat in Golden Lane, London. Embodying the atmosphere of the place influenced by the light. 500 x 240 x 200 mm, wax.
Garment based on the memory of the body, analysing the interplay of memory and meaningful experiences. During the Second World War, in 1944, Romania, my grandmother was hiding in the woods because the German airplanes were bombing the villages. The garment petrifies the movement of her covering the ears due to the atrocious noise.
Constructing a composition where the shape of the triangle becomes leitmotif, Palazzo Grassi, Italy.
Looking at the gradation of colours on the stairs influenced by the eaves above them, Villa Saraceno, Italy.
Experimental film about absurd reactions caused by the atrocities of the war. I used a printed image on a glass table, lit from below. I cut the interior of the eye and poured milk and ink inside.
Film by Irina Elena Mania (C) 2015.