Technology speaks a new scientific language, in which the poetic stylistics is absent. However, art, the most subtle form of expression of the ancestral being, promises an inner unleash, regardless of the auspices of a socio-cultural armor of contemporary man. These flowers of spirit come to light with our actions and intentions. Modernity also transfigures itself in its post-modern stages, and the daily seems to swallow all the paradisiacal nature of the human being.
Chinese Hanfu is now reinterpreted with sportswear materials, neoprene or waterproof textures industry, but also with fabrics specific to the Romanian folk port, for example cotton or wool. The roses from Bucovina have acquired two-dimensional shapes in a chromatic bath that creates the effect of atemporal osmosis, in which the illusion of the Romanian folk style and interior of the rural houses, unfolds on a hanfu pattern. Red and pink are complementary to raw green, all on an intense blue background that suggests the sky that defines the nostalgic world of the village.
A text of contemporary poem and allusion to the texts sewn on the old carpets, balances the two worlds.
The world will live antagonistic and diverse, with its specific features and details, but somewhere in the depths of our being, something unites us as a river enlightened by the greatest of the spiritual performances - the poem - giving of flight and the hope that the infinite invades our contemporary worlds.
“And the blooming apple will have robotic flowers / with buds and polish twigs.. ”
(the original text of the artist)
China Meets Romania 2019 / 2020 Carmen Emanuela Popa
Photography Carmen Emanuela Popa
Model Kana Yamaguchi / Balerina at National Opera Bucharest
Location Odeon Theatre Bucharest