9 7/8 x 63 x 59 in
"Everything we call real is created from things we can't call real".
Niels Bohr, physicist
The exhibition project "Allogenic Site", proposed by artist Alina Aldea for the Column Hall of Altes Dampfbad, represents a recontextualization of the existing architectural structure through a site-specific installation. The constituent elements of this site-specific installation - feathers, textiles, fur, mirrors, glass, electric cables - lead to enigmatic formal structures that question the surrounding reality. The whole space and the columns will seem attacked by a colony of foreign organisms, suggesting the imbalance of the whole resistance structure offered by the architecture itself. Thus, the space and the visitor become captives of a contaminated environment.
The solo exhibition "Allogenic Site" consists of the site-specific installation "Out of the Black #03" and the series of drawings "000 000 0001", created between 2022 and 2024. The site-specific installation "Out of the Black #03" from 2024 was designed specifically for the Column Hall at Altes Dampfbad, with the artist stating: "In my project I aim to refute the theories about the organic interdependence between spaces and their functions on the one hand, and on the other hand to bring to the public's attention, through artistic means, a series of questions about alienation and hybridization, consequences of the world and time in which we live... In my artistic work I am interested in the energy of matter, fluidity, weightlessness, illusion, predictability, as well as failure, all of which are part of the lexicon of my introspections."
The trigger for the "000 000 0001" series of drawings was physicist Niels Bohr's conclusion about quantum mechanics: "Everything we call real is created from things we cannot call real." This gave rise to a kind of "neo-pointillist" drawings on black paper in which the artist probes issues related to light as wave and particle, Plank length, hypotheses of multiple alternative realities and the possibility of 11 dimensions, according to M-theory.
Curator: Diana Dochia, PhD
