Lia - "an alien and a dreamer"
endless collection
endless dream
the dream of a round world
the dream of an organized world
the dream of a structured world
the attention to every object where the image of this dream might appear
the alienated Lia - on the one hand Lia of the newspaper and of the interviews
and of the object that doesn't say anything
Lia the conceptual, Lia the analytical, Lya the observer of the organized
movement of ideas
on the other hand, Lia the dreamer Lia the sensitive the ironical and the
seeker
she seeks for the perfectly round world
the globe is more than a map,
a globe is an idealized image of the world,
a map is the projection of a route that can be walked through to the end of
it
a map is still a part of an infinite Earth, the Earth that has a limit, an
end, but one which can never be
reached, or conceived; we can only dream about it
as for the globe
its roundness and mobility
is the sign of a new world
a world that became conscious of its own finitude, and found the perfection
within its own limit
Lia's globes are closed in glass museum boxes
they are separated, each one with its own category, as they should be in a
museum
they are what's left of a perfect world
this separation is the conceptual Lia sneaked into the dreaming Lia
in order to see simultaneously the both of Lia, one has to look through all
the boxes
and the multiplied image of a finite and perfect world
and the mirrored image of a round world will appear
and it will be like the miniaturized copy of the real world
the world in which we eat, and fly, and send postal cards from our travels
a world that we can infinitely multiply
or recreate somewhere else, outside the perfect border of it
the line between the 2 Lia
is this very line of passing from the real life to the art work
it's a perpetual state of transit
Lia's work deals with space…
it's strange how these round objects acquire the form on which they appear
(and this happens often, instead of them giving their form to the objects)
and then they are closed in a box which has corners - Lia's prophetic corners;
just like the 4 corners of the world contained the promise of the roundness,
so the corners of her work announce the expansive desire of Lia to extend
this space, to bridge the gap between the classes of objects split here, to
annul the difference between the work and the real life
Lia was present to "Periferic" in two different places, with her two different sides: Lia the engaged in her context, asking herself and others what it means to think and work (at the same time, which might seem a contradiction in a country where the workers are used to work and not to ask, and the intellectuals are used to wait for the recognition…), in today's Romania. On the other hand, Lia the nomadic, Lia-the-dependent-of-voyage, Lia the European, that Lia who is only asking for normal air to breathe, knowing at the same time that she cannot find that air in only one place…
Raluca Voinea
