【展覽資訊｜凝視自我—安娜.瑪瑞亞.米庫個展】

「凝視自我」是米庫對於近年來生活事件的梳理與圖像選擇邏輯的展現，透過自己如何與平凡瑣事共處的過程，將生活片斷轉化成特殊的非線性視覺經驗。描繪的場景是藝術家熟悉的空間，筆下主角是日日於其中的自己，圍繞在側的是近期最大的興趣—室內植栽。那些綠色植物的幼苗，在不完美的環境下努力生存，順應周遭進而延續生命，如同人們常說的：「生命總會找到出口」，這是自然創造藝術依循的方式；同樣的生命脈動也在米庫的作品裡流動著，這些看似居家的平常畫面，被紀錄的單一事件，其實相互關連，牽動著藝術家的創作神經，同時擴散到觀者的層面，將看與被看的關係重新進行支配，賦予背負百年包袱的繪畫創作形式一種新的可能。

安娜．瑪瑞亞．米庫出生於1979年，畢業於克廬日納波卡藝術與設計大學，現在工作與居住在羅馬尼亞的Segarcea。主要創作油畫與相關圖像的處理，作品中同時帶著繪畫與素描的內涵，寫實的筆觸展現更多的主觀思維與邏輯辯證。作品曾在全球許多國家展出，2012年在北京C空間展出個展，同年底於台北安卓藝術與創作夥伴皮特里瑟展出雙個展，獲得許多的好評與關注。

In the recent years of her practice, Micu has based her paintings on a collection of photographs from her immediate environment. The combination she proposes within this show comprises scenes from her daily life and what she calls “unlikely studio views” – images taken during various artistic endeavors she accommodates at home.

The show is a non-linear visual examination, a multifaceted presentation of self, spanning several years of the artist’s life, which leads to an interest in growing plants. The spontaneous manifestation of this interest, disregarding the unsuitable existing conditions of periodic relocation, guided the artist in constructing a speculative yet reassuring scenario about things happening for a reason. By including works featuring plants in an elusive relation with the depicted surroundings, she goes beyond the realm of personal details towards articulating an empathetic connection with the audience. The viewer is encouraged to observe how past events archived as memories seem to reorganize into abridged narrations to make us feel comfortable recalling or sharing them.Ana Maria Micu (n. 1979) is a visual artist living in Segarcea, Romania, who works with painting and drawing. A Master of Fine Arts graduate of the University of Art and Design of Cluj-Napoca in Romania, she has exhibited internationally for almost a decade. In 2012 she had the solo show “Tender Heart, Keep Still!” at C-Space Gallery in Beijing. In the same year, together with Cătălin Petrişor, they presented “A Conscious Choice For Temporary Blindness” at Mind Set Art Center in Taipei.