Oil on canvas
The concept chosen for “Perhaps the Unseen” is an abstract and contradictory experiment, in which the two individuals, working in the field of visuality, try to imagine themselves as temporarily blinded, in a solely attempt to record the blurred memory incorporated in an affective distance between two specific moments in the past. The condition of being blind, in this artistic case, is similar to William James’ stream of consciousness narrative mode (1890), a procedure that has been lately found all along Modern literature’s masterpieces, such as Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, James Joyce’s final part of Ulysses, or William Burroughs’ Naked Lunch. All this emotional flow is thoroughly combined with a very sharp and allusive way of depicting the surrounding reality, by emphasizing in the same way all the parts of all objects. With this simple, but deeply engaged solution, the mystery of objects is inherently present in this inconvenient clarity, which makes us think that there should be something more to explore. The novelty in this current exhibition is related to the emotional juxtaposition and the physical superposition of two separated images, generated by the memory of the same author. We cannot know which reality is involved, therefore we have to admit that, concerning these images, we are talking about the juicy and modern concept of parallel realities. Micu and Petrișor investigate their inner selves by representing those parallel realities and, sometimes, unfamiliar, awkward objects that just burst into their calm, peaceful and usual surroundings. Temporary blindness is just a matter of choice, and not an uncontrolled, distressful fact. You just choose what you want to see.
