Roxana Donaldson | Safety First | Modular Installation + Research Archive

“Safety First!” forces an encounter with the paradoxical poetics of safety and maps the “quiet disquiet” that resides within moments presumed to be secure, maping the visceral feeling of anxiety through painting and assemblage, post minimalistic Process Art. 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, while the assemblage objects (black spheres) serve as tactile extensions into the three-dimensional realm.

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.

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, and is extended into space through over 150 black spheres.