Play Abstract – Interactive Projection | Galeria Art Nouveau | CONTACTUS Exhibition

Описание: The exhibition was featured in the press:
https://www.e-nepujsag.ro/articles/gondola...

CONTACTUS – PLAY ABSTRACT

The central focus of my work is connection.
I am interested in the moment when an artwork meets the viewer — not only visually, but on an experiential level.

For me, CONTACTUS is a space of touch:
a field where human and image, human and tool, human and space enter into relationship with one another.

This idea is extended in the interactive project Play Abstract, where my paintings and the projection function as a shared, open system. The images are not closed artworks, but starting points within a process in which the viewer becomes an active participant.

Play Abstract explores the role of play —
not as entertainment, but as a form of learning and discovery.
Play is one of the most ancient ways we relate to the world.
We experiment, make mistakes, try again — and learn in the process.

In this installation, the tool of play is the controller.
An object that functions both as a technical interface and a symbolic link:
it connects the viewer to the image and transforms the observer into a co-creator.

When someone touches this device, they are not merely controlling the work — they are entering its space.
Here, connection is no longer an abstract idea, but a tangible experience.

Digital tools — controllers, cables, technological objects — often appear in my paintings. These are visual imprints of contemporary relationships, reflecting how increasingly we connect to one another, and to ourselves, through devices.

When abstract light is projected onto these images, the painting transcends its own frame.
The image is no longer a closed surface, but a permeable space.

This is where the moment becomes essential:
each projected state exists only briefly; there is no final form.
This ephemerality is linked to crossing boundaries —
the painting crosses the canvas,
the viewer crosses the role of passive observer,
and the artwork crosses the boundary of being a static object.

For me, CONTACTUS and Play Abstract are two sides of the same idea:
how painting and digital technology can be connected in a way that allows the viewer not only to look at the work, but to engage with it.

Here, play is not a decorative element, but a method —
a mode of learning, a space of exploration,
where the artwork does not provide fixed answers, but opens possibilities.

Creation becomes complete for me at the moment
when image, light, and human presence coexist —
and a connection is formed between them.