"Unlimited Visuality", at Aparte Gallery this September
September 12, 2022 | Cosmina Marcela OLTEAN ArtPageUnlimited Visuality (08 - 25 September 2022), recently opened to the public, is a research exhibition, hosted by Aparte Gallery within the George Enescu National University of Arts in Iași, curated by Adrian Bojenoiu. The project brings together the artists ALB, Lucian Bran, Ana Maria Micu, Sarah Muscalu, Elizaveta Ostapenko and Ciprian Tokar.
“With the ever more powerful impact of the generalised digitalisation and of culture extensively relying upon communication via images, the levels of visual discourse and image valorisation have undergone significant and unprecedented changes. Digital technology has facilitated the passage from a passive contemplation to an active usage of images. Technological images produced by AI, satellite images and those captured by surveillance cameras or vernacular photographs distributed through social media compose the contemporary iconosphere that controls affects, the production of signs and desires.
The exhibition, "Unlimited Visuality" is part of the "Investigative Aesthetics in the Post-Truth Era" project initiated by ElectroPutere Gallery and the Institute for Multidisciplinary Research in the Arts (ICMA) with the aim of exploring the multiple functions and social and political effects of contemporary image culture through artistic and theoretical research”, the project team informs.
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| Photos by Aparte Gallery |
From another perspective, the artistic works proposed by ALB question the image in its capacity as a communication code. In the current context, where the image proliferates in a deeply virtualized social environment, her artistic practice is a response to this environment, being categorized as antimimetic and non-aesthetic. The refusal to create defined visual representations, and implicitly, the refusal to describe or comment on a supposed reality is accompanied by the challenge of abstraction as a process of mental reduction and essentialization of representation.
Hamburg-based Russian artist Elizaveta Ostapenko's research focuses on the communicative character of the image. In her case, the production of the image is the result of a deconstructive process, which involves canceling the traditional semiotic functions used in representation. His artistic practice develops a narrative about the image using personal experiences, activities and everyday experiences, inspired by the immediate reality induced by the visual manipulations of mass culture. In contrast, Ana Maria Micu restricted her flow of images to a source that comes from the environment of her own home. The artist exclusively paints scenes from her own apartment, images taken during various artistic endeavors. The painting proposed by the artist represents an unlimited visual examination, a multifaceted presentation of the self.
"Unlimited Visuality" is a cultural project co-financed by the National Cultural Fund Administration. The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. These are entirely the responsibility of the funding recipient.
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