French Institute Timișoara opens the garden of the institute for the project SPAȚLATER IU – Carte blanche à Liliana Mercioiu Popa, presented to the public on June 4, at 20.00:XNUMX p.m. It can be visited until September this year.
intervention Space after proposes a structuring of the garden space, through a flexible construction, made of elastic bands, creating the appearance of delimitations within it, but actually causing it to be crossed.
The title is an adaptation of the philosopher Emanuele Coccia's concept of "subsequent body" by which he spoke about the extension of the physical body outside (inside out), thus becoming a secondary/subsequent body, which only thus makes communication with the world possible.
Extending this concept to the idea of "subsequent space", it becomes a challenge for the artist to create a "sensitive space" to all the environmental conditions given by its placement in a garden and to all possible types of interactions, not just human ones . This puts the visitors in a special relationship with the existing natural data (plants, birds, insects, but also phenomena), provoking reflection on the interconnections/
the existing inter-conditions between different spheres, persons, entities.
The intervention requires a playful attitude from the audience, provoked by the visual characteristics of the work, for an optimal experience of it.
The youngest visitors have already tested it on the occasion of the inauguration of the VIVANT GARDEN, which will include a series of cultural, educational and entertaining activities
dedicated to them, which will take place over the summer in the garden space.
The concept of the work continues the concerns of Liliana Mercioiu Popa's personal exhibition last year at MNAC Ways to build (2020), but also finds some correspondences in the exhibition Medial space – I am not where I am, nor where I think (2016) or the series of early paintings Mineral, Vegetable, Organic (2003-2005) and About fluidity (2011-3013).
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Born on July 20, 1975 in Târgu-Jiu, Liliana Mercioiu-Popa lives and works in Timișoara. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Arts and Design, Painting Department, from Timișoara, where she has been teaching since 1999. In 2008, she received her PhD in Visual Arts with the thesis Poetic arts in the plastic art of the XNUMXth century.
The artist uses several forms of artistic expression such as painting, drawing, photo installation and text. His concerns cover a wide spectrum of issues related to macro- and micro-historical contexts. Her own becoming in relation to the development of the world, the historical evolution of the social and cultural climate in which she lives, the balance of forces and determinations that create the identity of a community, a social group or an individual, are recurring aspects of her art. She is also interested in deciphering those "incidents/accidents" that make it possible to access aspects of existence beyond the visible.
Liliana Mercioiu-Popa organizes exhibitions / interventions with students in dedicated spaces (Halele Timco, Atelier 030202, Bastionul Theresia), alternative (Fabrica ELBA) or public (Festival of the Timișene Arts, Piața Unirii or Botanic Park).
This interferes with the Timisoara artistic groups IN-FORMAT (founding member in 2001), Noima (exhibitor in 2013–2014) and Avantpost (member since 2015).
In 2019, he founded, together with Maria Oroșan Telea, the T-act Association/Centre for Contemporary Art and Theoretical Studies.
French Institute Timișoara – Institut Français de Timisoara
Assoc. Univ. Dr. Liliana Popa
