Contemporar

The exhibition Shadows of the Landscape opens a dialogue about the subtle ways environments linger within the body, tracing how places shape perception long after they fade from sight. The exhibition emerges from a year-long research process carried out within the Studiotopia program, where artist Ânia Pais collaborated closely with scientist Tibor Hartel. Their exchange, grounded in observation, ecological sensitivity, and sustained dialogue, shaped the conceptual and material direction of the works. What is presented here is not a final answer, but the visible trace of this shared inquiry: forms, processes, and gestures that crystallize the ongoing conversation between artistic practice and scientific thinking. The landscape is not an image to be looked at, but a presence felt through shifts of perception. It lingers as vibration, density, resonance. Instead of presenting the landscape as a visual motif, the exhibition focuses on how it is perceived through the senses, murmuring in the background of one’s attention, insisting that even what seems distant can move us intimately. The works gathered in the exhibition operate less as representations and more as invitations to inhabit this intermediate zone where memory, sensibility, and matter converge. Ânia Pais – Shadows of the Landscape is part of Studiotopia and organised by Cluj Cultural Centre under the Challenge #3: If We Opened People Up, We’d Find Landscapes. Special thanks to the Local Challenge Committee: Ciprian Mihali, Mihaela Ghiță. Alexandru N. Stermin Supported by the European Union.