Alexandru Mihai Budes and Øyvind Sørfjordmo invite Hyun Su Jung, Gabriel Jeanjean, Lisa Marie Schmitt, George Bodocan & Diane de Ferran
**In a tale, a duck found a bag with two coins merging several incompatible worlds into a new universe, ze (standing as a genderless pronoun) collected conceptions of childhood. Focusing on the compositional process behind the seemingly random works we found, we continued our walk by combining unrelated aspects and arriving at surprising analogies. These thought processes are supposed to be private, highly subjective and unfiltered in their references to dream worlds. On his way ze, duck, frequently revealed himself as a projection of unconsciousness.
Hyun Su Jung works with media arts and performance. By taking daily life as a subject while commenting on the aesthetics of daily life, she attempts to address a wide range of topics in a multi-layered way. Her works focus on reality and virtual reality through linguistic and cultural differences. She tries to create works in which the real event still has to take place or a fictional and experiential place: from the technological support and the form of the human body.
Gabriel Jeanjean is a painter and media artist. By studying sign processes, meaning and communication, he creates cooperative works of art. His proposals appear as vibrant images in which fictions blend and move. At the crossroads of traditional and digital media, he conducts research on the meta-characteristics of visual languages and non-linear narratives.
Alexandru Mihai Budeș tackles a self-interrogative journey, in an attempt to understand the outside world, itself echoing it and the inside world. What is essential for him is the discovery of new places, which is accompanied by a commitment to discussions and the experience of different points of view. Vaguely thinking of biographical elements, the new projects come from conversations, cultural elements, experiences, passages from stories or texts, observations of technological and natural phenomena or different states of mind.
Lisa Marie Schmitt is a conceptual artist who works with video, sound and sculpture by exploring certain phenomena, sometimes biological, medical, psychological or social, and transferring them to another level of meaning in a poetic and partially humorous way.
Øyvind Sørfjordmo creates abstract works, whether drawings, paintings or sculptures, that seek to communicate with each other through their different media, with the common goal of exploring the limits of the materials used and their visual effects of attraction or rejection on their audience. His artistic process begins with research in the form of sketches that he develops of forms and visual expressions that he seeks to study.
George Bodocan considers the image to be the oldest universal language. His creations are the testimony of his experience on earth. He decides to dedicate his life and creations to a free, pure and true unconscious. His work tells visual and auditory stories - the conscious remains an observer of the world, in relation to materialistic life. The black line of his drawings is made up of universal symbols, geometric shapes that can be found in all ancient cultures and civilizations, always in this perspective of communication by form.
Diane de Ferran is a comic strip designer and illustrator. Her work explores several aspects of contemporary life while drawing attention to family and daily habits. She caricatures as a simple way to highlight these humble details that she represents as clumsy but also embarrassing, funny and worthy of being the subject of a whole comic strip.
Alexandru Mihai Budes (Romania) is in residence at the Cité internationale des arts through the programme of the Cultural Institute of Romania.
Øyvind Sørfjordmo (Norway) is in residence at the Cité internationale des arts as part of the Ingrid Lindbäck Langaards Foundation programme.