This new exhibition offers a transversal vision of Dana Cojbuc’s work, with extracts from several series that are emblematic of her artistic approach: Yggdrasil, Ouvrir le rivage, Effluve, Traces de silence, En levko.
The artist takes a poetic look at the landscape, playing with it and not hesitating to stage it. She sometimes moves or adds elements: trunks, branches, flour. His physical investment is at the heart of his practice. On foot or bicycle, she surveys forests, shores, moors and paths. She smells, looks, searches, feels.
Starting from her own prints, she extrapolates, redefines limits and reinvents the subject through drawing. The boundary between photography and charcoal work is subtle, mysterious and opens the way to imaginary places. This extension acts
as a revelation of the graphic and plastic character of the real landscape, in which she sometimes intervenes beforehand, in the manner of a Land art artist.
She abolishes the opposition between the presentation of things and their representation. There is no conflict, only passage. Fluid passage, in both directions, in complete tolerance. The artist thwarts the laws of perspective, freeing herself from the frame and lightly transgressing the rules in force in photography and contemporary art.
This willingness to mix images underlines the imaginary dimension of her work. Bringing together – through drawing – landscapes captured in Romania, Provence, the Landes, the Basque Country, Normandy or Norway enables a journey outside a geographical reality, like a landscape without borders. While the idea of keeping photographic memories of certain places is at work, it is not a nostalgic quest that guides the artist. It’s more a question of allowing Platonic or more personal reminiscences to emerge. The drawing then takes its place in the important margins, the blanks intended to evoke the unfinished, like an invitation to take a stroll through a changing world.