Painting by Irina Abaza exhibited at MORA Gallery

On November 26, painter Irina Abaza will feature the “7:19 am” art exhibit at MORA Gallery (Galeria MORA).

The artist herself describes the exhibit as such: “7:19 am presents a poetics of expectation, a visual exploration of a tense universe, populated by atemporal characters trapped in a closed space. The window that delimits this captive space may represent a link to the exterior, a possible escape route, or merely a source of light from which the characters shy away. The contrast between two worlds – the outside (alien) one, and the inside world (homely, but at the same time claustrophobic) – is a symptom of the characters’ inner drama.

The state of expectation, of waiting, becomes a form of stasis, a discontinuity, a flight from the real world, an in-between existence. The characters are depicted in a voyeuristic manner, vulnerable in their exposed corporeality, mute, locked within their own drama. In this way, the viewer becomes himself a voyeur, an impotent witness of a sterile expectation, whose mystery envelopes him, turning the viewer into the very character he is looking at.”

Irina Abaza (born in 1977) is a graduate of the „N. Grigorescu” Art University din Bucuresti in 2002 and she is presently the president of Asociatia din Pod (the Attic Association) and the coordinator of the I love Bucharest public and community art programme. Alongside with the public art interventions projects, Irina Abaza comcentrates on her painting, depicting deeply human emotions and feelings. Drama, mistery, personal experience, intimacy, poetry of states are the main interest in Irina Abaza’s work.

Exhibition is open until December 15 by appointment at +40 21 316 55 41 or +40 724 015 905. MORA Art Gallery is located on Str. Grigore Mora 39, Bucharest.