So happy and excited to have my first solo art exhibition-presentation of the ”impossible affinities” concept in the Flowering Rock gallery of Natasha Makowski, in SoWa Boston in US!

Unfortunately we were caught by this uninvited dreadful visitor covid 19 and our original schedule was interrupted…

The notion in which is based this particular work is:

”convenientia”:

Connected things near to one another, making a great chain of being.

It is about a deal, an agreement, a conspiracy between ”things” that touch each other with their edges , or their nature, or as well with their essence and so a kind of movement is transmitted, as their properties and their effects are transmitted. At this point, a common way of life is imposed, a pluralistic system is created. A cosmos. A cosmos -a world, that forms a chain with itself, as Michel Foucault explains. A cosmos that must fold towards itself, to reflect on itself, to chain it together so that things can look like each other.

The essence of Convenientia is to connect. My intention is to connect things , to bring things close that were not meant to meet, or find themselves in the same place. Impossible affinities is the topic of my visual dialogue. This can be executed by the mobilization of signs and symbols. The power of signs , the crowd of them creates a different reality that springs out with a special entropy – ritual with an increasing tendency. I use photography not as simulation of virtual memory, not with the desire to retrieve iconic memories that you will resort to them to evoke emotion, but as a special kind of make up. A make up that somehow cancels the reality of my selected heroes, of my building materials only to recreate it. So my ”crew”, reinvents itself to diffuse unity among its members that lose their identity in order to contrive it again and mutually captivated between one another.

These impossible-possible affinities, between entities look like what Massimiliano Marianelli says” a constant tension to the unity in the distinctness, and this is expressed by the notion of Convenientia that names the dynamism of the relationship, along with the tension to a Principle that, at last, is the relationship itself.”

Loula Leventi