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koralia maciej
Koralia Maciej is a multi-disciplinary artist who creates
large scale compositions which extend a dialogue with their
surrounding space. She is inspired by industrial architecture,
abandoned and overlooked fragments of distorted reality.
oana stanciu
Romanian visual artist Oana Stanciu, a favourite exhibitor at
past Hidden Doors, returns this year on our invited artists
programme. Her recent work combines still and moving image
in which she uses herself as a model, experimenting with her
body and everyday objects to improvise scenes and create
unnatural or subtly distorted images. Stanciu likes to play and
pretend; rendering the ordinary extraordinary and mesmeric.
Embracing the theatrical setting, this year’s project will explore
themes of repetition and ritual, focusing on video installation.
She is interested in finding new ways for viewers to experience
her work, playing with sound and how imagery is presented -
hiding and seeking - within the space. Viewers can expect an
immersive, intriguing spectacle, with characteristic undertones
of the strange and uncanny.
Her practise develops works as discrete containers of
thought, memory or ideas, showing situations in which
structures charge the space around them by reconf iguring
the surroundings through poetic transformation. She invites
the viewer to translate moments of dynamic presence into a
static world, and to move into a space of abstract geometrical
forms; creating three dimensional large scale objects which
represents translated fragments of industrial cityscape. She
is fascinated by visual alterations of the environment. For
Maciej, moments of deconstruction are the starting point of
the process of telling the story, rewriting it or creating a ‘to be
continued’. Maciej returns to Hidden Door 2017 as an invited
artist to make a site specific, ambitious work in the main
auditorium of the venue.
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