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)