Extended Hours
Doppelgänger
With Luca Florian
Curated by Daniela Custrin
"Doppelgänger" picks up the thread from "In the Living Room Shadows Burn" at Posibilă Gallery, where the exhibition unfolded in the textured intimacy of a lived-in space. There, Luca Florian’s artworks operated within a poetics of proximity, absorbed into the rhythms of domestic architecture, resonating with their environment as if part of it. This affective entanglement between object and setting invited viewers into a relational mode of looking, one shaped by introversion, repetition, and the emotional sediment of everyday life.
At Zina Gallery, this intimacy turns grey, muted, opaque, slightly estranged. The exhibition feels like a sanctuary, an algorithmic refuge, where the paintings no longer blend in, but flicker like avatars of the self. The space evokes a Sims-like dramaturgy, where each object becomes emotionally charged, each gesture engineered by an invisible score. Here, intimacy is both staged and real, while the works double as affective surrogates. For memory, for longing, for the disenchanted pleasure of our own artificial hells.
- excerpt from text by Daniela Custrin
