Emanuela Marcu

The theme of inhabitation has been central to my artistic process, as well as the blurred limits between what are considered "˜artistic "˜and "˜private' spheres. I have re-located and dis-located elements of these inhabited spaces in order to explore the idea of a "˜lived' art form.

Gradually, I have grown into defining the concept of space as both an architectural/ phenomenological space or, equally, the space of the drawing generated within the blank of the paper surface or the drawing -space occupied by written text on a page).

I have grown into seeing all these different material spaces as forms that can be "˜musicated' by a drawing-rhythm which could be manifested in a multiplicity of materials and shapes and can be poeticized through labyrinthine strata of associative meanings that could both generate and be determined by them .

I have also grown into understanding that, for me, as a painter, this spatial drawing is deeply connected with a phenomenological perception of light and intensifies a way of tracing the light- perception within a space and making it visible/present. My installations/drawings/language-object collages are attempts to poetically respond to a space, to alter it, or trans-form it into something i...