Dans mon coeur Installation

Dialog Alain Oudin et Christian Paraschiv My work and the life of my family have been marked by our exile from Romania to France in 1986. From the very beginning, there has been a search for identity, marked by my intial position towards a dictatorship that crushes as well as drives many people into “ a state of waiting ”, a state which had often been favored by the orthodox culture which has pushed towards the acceptance or the martyrology as my friend, Ion Grigorescu, often used in his discourse. I myself have experienced this motionless state of “this frozen time” as an obligation for a permanent challenge. Therefore, the exile acts as a forge speeding up the flames of memory and identity: the rupture induced by the exile makes this research even more important and doubles the theme of our memory, of the reconstruction of a history. My first painting exhibition in 1978 in Bucharest already focused on the body and death themes. In 1980, also in the same city, at Simeza Gallery, the fragmentation of a photographic image, parceling, sketches this purpose and this form which will be recurrent up to present. The themes of the sheep, the herd, the shepherd and the wolf represent an efficient and transversal metaphor, both religious, social and political. This alternation of photographic and painted works, having been followed systematically until now within a mixed media of drawing, painting and engraving, of volume and action, of photography and fingerprinting or the culture of the skin…up to the sampling of my own skin, has been marked by my will to embrace all techniques, from the most traditional to the most innovative. The “Feminine –Masculine” series are a manner both of questioning identity and at the same time of challenging social normalization and socialist orthodoxy of dictatorship along with the spiritual orthodox culture in its blockages and prohibitions. My work has been built on this tripod of memory / identity / exile. Dialog Alain Oudin and Christian Paraschiv

Installation:Metal on Plastic

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:25.6 W x 19.2 H x 2 D in

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