If you live with elder family members in the same house, you can’t be irresponsible and not try to protect them. For me it is very simple – you wash your hands very often and keep social distancing as much as you can for protecting yourself and others as well. I was extremely annoyed by fake news and some people sharing all sorts of conspiracies and theories. Also, I changed my Facebook account name for a while and deleted all my personal data and photos, and this makes me avoid staying too much on the news feed too I use it now only for my artist page. But that’s it I don’t want to become too anxious due to consuming a lot of news. I have installed on my phone a news application which selects only important official news, and that keeps me up to date.
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I quit watching TV news during these times. What is your recipe for survival in a time of almost only bad news?
In April of this year, a solo show for my latest works would have taken place in Lugano, Switzerland, but due to the pandemic it was postponed. It’s an invasion of information and products, so I want my works to look like that, more powerful and disturbing. But in Synthetic Future, I want elements to be more and more concretely shaped and intense in colour, similarly to what we see in the advertisement aesthetic, supermarkets, or product packaging design. I like my works to be a fusion of gestural, abstract painting with surreal or mysterious scenes and moods where the eye can also find some peaceful areas to rest upon. Since then I have worked to expand the series, to evolve and give a different feel in my latest works. I already exhibited the first works in 2019 in Vienna, Austria, but that was just the beginning. Allegorically recomposed, the devastating effects of junk invasion and consumerism on our living space, all these reminiscences of our daily waste are caught dancing, floating in their singularity. My paintings gradually became more of a surrealist journey in the universe of the urban periphery.
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I developed a new series named Synthetic Future last year in late summer. We at are convinced that creativity and positive emotions are good for the immune system and just might help us better navigate through these difficult times.įrom her studio in Timișoara, Romanian artist Edith Torony answers a short questionnaire by :Īre you working on any projects right now in your studio? If so, could you briefly describe them? All artist stories will be published on and on our Instagram and Facebook accounts. We have invited artists from all over the world to send us a short video or photo story illustrating what they are doing, what they are thinking, and how they are feeling during this time of crisis and self-isolation. As a sort of gesture of inspiration and ‘remote’ mutual solidarity, we have launched the project titled What Artists Are Doing Now, with the aim of showing and affirming that neither life nor creative energy are coming to a stop during this crisis. Although we are at home and self-isolating, we all – artists, creatives and – continue to work, think and feel. In fact, quite the opposite is happening in what is turning out to be a time that befits self-reflection and the generation of new ideas for the future.
Nevertheless, while public life is paralyzed and museums, galleries and cultural institutions are closed, in many of us neither the urge to work nor the creative spark have disappeared. In the current situation, clearly our top priority is to take care of our families, friends and fellow citizens. Romanian artist Edith Torony in TimisoaraĪn inspiration and mutual solidarity project for the creative industries
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