ALSO VIEW: PAINTING GALLERY | OBJECTS GALLERY | AFTERMATH EXHIBITION |
INSTALLATION FULL RESEARCH DOSSIER | PRESS + VIDEO
EXHIBITION TOPOGRAPHY: DATA POINT REFERENCE + Fieldwork- LOG_06.2025
REF: ARC.25.06 LOCATION: DalgART Gallery Craiova | JUNE 2025
This in situ series of captures is not a display catalog, but an organic extension of the research.
The choice for this “forensic” visual language stems from my role as a Memory Analyst: memory is never a perfect rendering, but a pulsing organism that degrades and persists through fragments. The visual noise and the rawness are in full alignment with the essence of the quiet disquiet archive. These are imperfect, yet alive images—the closest proxy to the direct, unmediated experience of the exhibition.
Concept
“Safety First!” forces an encounter with the paradoxical poetics of safety and maps the “quiet disquiet” that resides within moments presumed to be secure, mapping the visceral feeling of anxiety through painting and assemblage in a conceptual and post minimalistic Process Art fusion. It is an ever-evolving core unit of research within Roxana Donaldson`s practice as a Memory Analyst painter, where paintings form the central core and the assemblage art objects (black spheres) serve as tactile extensions of the paintings into the three-dimensional realm.
Exhibitions
In 2025, Safety First was on view at DalgART Craiova and at Calea Victoriei 91-93 Gallery, Bucharest.
The artist continues to update it by adding new pieces that recreate a new anxiety proposition with each new space and display.
Structure
The visual structure serves as a “chaotic cage” designed to preserve unsettling emotional contents. Using recycled sheets as a primary substrate, each painting becomes a physical archive of time, marked by multiple layers of erosion, schematics, and conceptual inscriptions, that is extended into space through the over 150 black spheres.
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