Fragmentum 2021

The oversized plastic structure is a gargantuan rotulus of washes and colored drawings (details from the parietal decorative elements) changes the dimensional paradigm and create an object-installation,that takes the miniature detail to the extreme by oversizing – a level zoom microscopic, which allows the eye to look into the world of decorative fractals, imperceptible in their natural state. All these visual structures contain an extremely poetic layer, which does not come from the connection to the archaeological content of the objects, but rather is potentiated by the presence of an atypical intimacy for ex-placing procedures, a sensation augmented by the characteristics of the space. (Ana Negoita, curator, project coordinator)

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Roxana Donaldson`s huge pastel object-installation (15 sqm), recalls the sequence of Renaissance decorative panels and is engaged in a dialogue with the red brick architecture of the vaults of the Getarie Gallery in the Mogosoaia Brancovan Pallaces . The multimediality is both explicit – a video montage projected directly onto the brick, which provides relief to each house and vibration to each herb flower reproduced in the photomontage −, and implicit – the panels contain sequential inserts, on which fragments of old photographs follow one another: eyes that look at you from the wall, from time − the eyes of the houses and their owners, the eyes that looked at the floral wallpaper of yesteryear or the world of homes −, flowers in the cyanotypes. The floral decoration, the flowers in the herbarium, the flowers on the wallpaper, the decorated wall, the wall as a support of material and immaterial layers, the archive wall – these are the harmonic notes of the exhibition, which connect and knot symbols, places and times. (University Prof. Laura MESINA, CESI – Center of Excellence for Image Studies)