silvia costin

The Time of the Gaze

Silvia Costin & Irina Gheorghe

July 19 - September 15, 2024

drawing & site-specific

Cabinet 44, Bucharest

Timpul privirii a fost prezentat la Cabinet 44 de artistele Silvia Costin și Irina Gheorghe.

Între prim-planul unei imagini și planurile secunde se află un spațiu indefinit din punct de vedere vizual și perceptual, un spațiu stăpânit de temporalitate. Între ceea ce este vizibil și ceea ce este închipuit, amintit sau anticipat se află durată nedeterminată a parcurgerii distanței dintre spațiul real și cel mental.

Spiritul de abstractizare și cel de figurare se întâlnesc într-o temporalitate disjunctivă în care privirea este ghidată, întoarsă, încetinită, deturnată sau chiar blocată de instrumente conceptuale străine.

Extrase dintr-un carnet de schițe, desenele Silviei Costin propun modalități de apropiere alegorică dintre timp și mișcare, prezentând o temă inspirată de Metamorfozele lui Ovidiu. O abordare melismatică cu sau fără cerințe de finalitate. Cu o formă palindromică, instalația site specific a Irinei Gheorghe, parte din seria Scoruri pentru sfârșitul prezentului, imaginează un dialog între aici și altundeva, între acum și altcândva, într-un timp mediat cromatic.

@courtesy of the artists

A MARVELLOUS DREAM

Silvia Costin

A MARVELLOUS DREAM

December 4, 2023- January 15, 2024

painting, drawing & site-specific

Teatre/Theatres, Bucharest

`The works in the exhibition are the seed of a seduction and of a conviction. Their affective origin lies in a thought about survival, one which I also find in the field of vision. Unlike the irrational, autobiographical and contradictory process of seeing, the realm of sight appears to be a composite of closed and open shapes. It all depends on the importance I place on contours, and if I decide to ignore them, then the attention withdraws from the margins, and the forms start to appear blended into each other, as surfaces generating impressions and leaving me in an ocean of nostalgia for all the abstract painterly effects that continuously emerge. This is the moment in which I decide that affects and movement offer access to a linear form, but if I try to isolate a form without the help of contours, visibility appears incomplete, unstable, cut off. The clear form is no longer a bearer of an impression, it shifts under my very eyes, the variable appearances absorb it. A mixture of thinking and feeling, as well as a light green I notice in passing, provide me with an idea of a form's necessity, in the sense that, once "found", it gives in to interpretation, but never to the gaze`. (Silvia Costin, 2023)

Art Opening

One of art's aims is to question the normal and to explore alternatives, to deviate from conventions, regulations, measures, restrictions, mandates and protocols. In a time when bodies are seen as sources of infection and disease, and we're preferred as online disembodied presences, turned against each other, Art Opening is a reminder that bodies are also sources of affects, intuitions, connection, presence, joy, creativity, love, sensibility, without which, there is no 'life' to be saved.

June 3, 2021, 17-21h, Parc Izvor, Bucharest

With: Roxana Ardeleanu, Flavia Bălan, Silvia Costin, Andreea David, Bogdan Drăgănescu, Giles Eldridge, Florin Flueras, Adriana Gheorghe, Cătălina Gubandru, Virginia Negru, Luca Popa, Bogdan Sibi, Alina Tofan, Eliza Trefas, Alex Vrajitoriu...

Project by Florin Flueraș @ www.artworlds.ro

Photo credit: Eliza Trefas, Cătălina Gubandru, Florin Flueraș

naturalizing technology

'untitled', oil on canvas, 2019, 20x30 cm
'untitled', oil on canvas, 2019, 40x30 cm

'untitled', oil on canvas, 2019, 40x30 cm

`Drink the Pink`@Atelier030202

DRINK THE PINK

9th November - 10th December, 2017

Opening: Thursday, November 9, 2017
group show

ATELIER 030202

'drink the pink' is a cytological test, extracted out of its original context; its narrative lines rearranged, and vaguely corrupted. The morphology is suggestive of an ambiguity around words such as ‘nature’ or ‘natural’.

at least for the moment.

omnipresent and insidious, manufactured nature is a simulation of a nature that was never there. Biotechnology is the scientific development through which human design creates an artificial, provocative authenticity. The ability to transfer a certain trait from one creature to another, with a purpose, is the principle of synthetic biology. In search of an equilibrium between technology and humanity, in vitro fertilisation, for example, offers oblique answers and brings about a new type of sensibility. It is doubtful whether technology can help us return to a more natural way of living. Perplexed in front of a supposed normality, nature becomes nature again through aleatory chaos and unintentional consequences. (Silvia Costin)

'extreme storyteller', oil/linen, 40x30 cm, (detail, installation view)

'the ear', oil/linen, 40x50 cm (each painting)

from the show

'twins', 80x60 cm, oil on linen, 2017

Tiger.Watermelon @ Make a Point # NAG 7

Tiger.Watermelon - site-specific installation including paintings, objects and video art.

Few works of art have the chance to be isolated from a certain context, to which the audience still owes a thorough and complete understanding. Probably that is why thematic exhibitions have become a mandatory subject, both in terms of contemporary art and the museum art. The approach of a contemporary art exhibition is always programmatic, often issued from a general idea that develops into an illustrative installation to justify a certain compliance.

Artists: Silvia Costin, Suzana Dan, Hermes Luaces, Juan de Dios Marfil, Bogdan Teodorescu

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