Victoria Rotaru
As we have removed ourselves further and further from nature, we have developed a willing ignorance of our role and relationship within it. With the growth of cities and trade we have moved from a subsistent, sustainable economy to one of greed and exploitation. Humans have always had an impact on the environment, but with the age of industry that impact has been ultra-magnified. Population growth has been exponentiated, cities have become the primary place of residence, and most of the world is now out of touch with the workings of nature.
Victoria Rotaru is an emerging artist with a massive interest about the magic of macro world. She transforms familiar items into fantastical abstract forms. Her art is about continuity of life and the transformation of it. Through this new reality, her practice has shifted into a focus on tactile representations of intimacy and connection between humanity and nature. A connection that borders upon sensibility and the sublime, especially in a world continuously rocked in chaos brought on by the natural order. This preoccupation has morphed from highly detailed photography of the surfaces to magic abstract forms. The skins of the plants act as a connection between humanity and nature, highlighting in rapid process the journey of life and has led to her most recent fascination with mould, showcasing and highlighting these textures, intimacies, and connections in a state of decay. A point of life in which touch ceases completely, but when new life is born again and the cycle of touch, intimacy begins anew.