Pulse -Taped, Haus 10, 2020
Light revival 1 & 2 -SmartART conference, Residence of Princess Ljubica Museum, 2019
(Collaboration with Dr. Prof Eiichi Tosaki)
Dr. Eiichi Tosaki’s work:
Bimanual Coordination Drawing (http://bimanualdrawing.wordpress.com/) :
I have developed my own understanding of bi-manual (double-hand) drawing in the context of studio practice, working initially with conventional media for more than 30 years. The aim is to generate a variety of configurations or patterns according to the number of strokes/beats, which are interpreted and analysed as forms of rhythmic structure. It is a pure drawing, in the sense that it is non-referential, gestural, non-painterly, non-semantic, flow itself, and against-shape.
Video from the opening of the exhibition
B#B -Oradea Fortress Reperaj Galleries, 2019
Complexul Penelopei, Digital:Canvas, 2019
Movie highlighting the evening
Sound Painting 48cHz in Grey and Gold -ART SAFARI-Pavilionul Supercontemporan: Young Blood, Oscar Maugsch Palace, 2019
Deiwos’ Genesis72 -Oradea Fortress Reperaj Galleries, 2019
My first movie combining the storytelling installation, legend creation and the natural geometry of the sound.
For a better understanding, please read the story found by following the link right below:
L’Atelier: Mes enregistrements sonores -Intact Fundation, 2019
A sound-painting performance done after finishing my residency at the Intact Foundation in Cluj-Napoca
Presentation text
Flora Sopa invites you into her workshop, where abstract art is
born from the communion of sound and colour. Here, the artist
uses her research into painting and music to reinterpret the
famous paper marbling technique.
With the help of technology, water, and pigments, she offers a
unique live performance that translates the vibration of sound
directly into abstract images.
Construed as a dialogue between chaos and the artistic spirit,
the act of creation balances the serendipity of the process and
the artist’s attempt to influence the painting’s outcome.
Video from the Performance here.
Éclairage et Forme-Institut Français de Cluj, 2019
Videos during the opening:
Light’s complex symphony- Digital Canvas, 2019
This exhibition was a highlight of my light work. Two main directions were presented into a complex show that combines the two dimensional and three-dimensional words.
On the left side there were three screens presenting different works of light compositions, while on the right side, I’ve created a light installation sectioned in half. One out of a projection and the bottom from two LED strips.
Videos from the event:
Formă și Distanță-H33, 2018
This event was a personal project. For the past years, I’d dreamed of creating a light-sound-vibration exhibition dedicated to the International Week of the Deaf. During this special week, I presented light installations and invited other artists to create performances in the new spaces.
In the spirit of the week, I also invited children from the local Highschool for people with hearing impairment and organized a performance especially for them.
Unconventional Transilvanian Art Spaces article mention
O dan Ysbryd-Villa von Hartz, 2018
O dan Ysbryd is a tale about an underground spirit whos hobby is to collect jams. Its life completely changes when, by chance, he manages to see the starry night through a hole on the Earth’s surface. Wanting to get at least one of those beautiful, shiny jams into his collection, he manages to get his hand through the opening, stretching it as much as he could. Even though his hand continued to grow, it was way too slow and the sunrise had arrived shortly. Because of its nature, the spirit was forced to change its arm into a tree in order to protect it and continue to grow during night time.
I have created this legend based on a tree found in the garden of a Villa in South Germany. The tree had an interesting attribute: it was splitting into five parts, resembling a human hand.
This light installation presented a happy ending to this legend, bringing the new stars to the spirit and helping it finally find its lost peace.
2Dx2D-Noblesse Palace, 2018
F1F#1 – The François Schneider immersive painting, 2017
Creating an over 10 meters long immersive project had been one of my dreams for years and it finally came true with the financial help of the François Schneider Foundation. It was one of the winning projects for a competition organised by the Foundation, Le Concours Kunstart.
The entire piece is composed of 10 different paintings that were created together to give the impression of a continuous flow of the paint. This one imitates the movement of the water, the vital liquid being the theme of the competition. It was created in the same style as my newest work, by bringing together sound frequencies, oil painting, water, and paper. The name of the work represents the two frequencies used during its creation.
While standing in front of it, the viewer is presented with a new universe within which sounds and colors work together into forming new abstract shapes. It proposes a fresh way of approaching the world we live in and a reconsideration of the possible connection between the human senses.
The White Cube Environment, 2016
This environment was one of the first proposals I developed at the beginning of my research. It visually presents the link between the natural musical scale, the reinterpretation of Sir Isaac Newton’s musical notes and the light frequencies’ association table. This table has been expanded to the full sound and light spectrums.
It is also a study on the human voice, more exactly voices’ tessituras. Human voices were divided into three categories based on an average frequency range: child (300-350Hz), woman (220-300Hz) and man (110-150Hz). I have made recordings of the sound frequencies within the precise ranges together with their correspondents in the light frequency spectrum (videos can be viewed in the video section under the name of the study).
Using superposed projections of the three videos, I’ve created a new harmonious environment inside a white cube of 300x300x300cm. Chance was also very present, each video having a different length. While playing in a loop, they can produce thousands of variation
I chose these ranges for my study because of our familiarity with these frequencies. The intention was to create an environment that would give a comfortable and harmonious experience, without subjecting the visitors to an ear-splitting encounter. In addition to the projection, the inside of the cube was covered in white canvas, acting as a pure white support for a painting made out of light.
Videos from the installation.
The Wall Resonance Environment, 2016
In 2016, I moved forward in my work to the harmony existing between the resonances of different materials and mediums. As part of one of my installations, I created a metal-bar sculpture that was put directly against a wall. Low frequencies, transmitted from a speaker through the wall, allowed me to discern a wall’s nodal pattern, which would create a resonance between the wall and sculpture. This in turn would make the metal bar vibrate, thus creating sound. This project did not merely focus on the generation of sound. It also allowed visitors to directly interact with the wall (by touching it for example), which would in turn influence the volume, sonic texture and the spatial location of the sound.
A later addition to the Environment was a piece composed of two photograms framed together. Despite their different origins, its role was to complete the first piece as its silently attached counterpart.
The Storytelling Environment, 2015
The Storytelling Environment tells one story and one story only: Luceafarul or The Evening Star. It is an old Romanian story in which Hyperion, the first star that appears on the horizon in the evening, falls in love with a human princess. Its most famous iteration is that written by Romania’s most distinguished poet, Mihai Eminescu and bears the same name. It is a romantic poem that tells the love story of two beings that belong to different worlds, who become more aware of this impediment with each chapter.
Creating a completely white non-abstract storyboard helped me play with the idea of letting the viewers also discover the work through a different sense: touching. The bas-relief added more texture, and therefore a stronger experience to the environment.
