explorARTa
Psychogeographic experiences
in the urban environment.
explorARTa is an artistic research project, the result of a serendipitous experience focusing on the emotions perceived while walking through an urban space. The study began with the hypothesis that an exploration of the surrounding environment, through the discovery of fragments from the real landscape, is visually produced and represents the artist's thinking. Explorations in urban spaces, as well as in nature, carried out for this purpose have led me to areas of knowledge still unexplored by me, such as psychogeography, where I have discovered new ways of artistic expression through emotional and sensory experiences.
Walking without a determined goal in exploring the City that can reveal the unseen aspects of the environment, is specific to psychogeography and represents an essential factor for understanding the urban and the natural landscape. For me, drifting through an urban environment is a kind of artistic research and this attempt to discover the details of the City, in which the stratigraphy represents a deeper immersion into the attributes of the details, can also be transformed into an archaeological research, more precisely of experiential archaeology. In order to discover the way we perceive the surrounding reality, I consider that a psychogeographic exploration can be a synthesis between the experientiality of a performance and the visual analysis of an artist who immerses himself in a research of fractal dynamics. Using photography in psychogeographic experiments, I discovered its artistic potential and I saw it as a visual art form generating virtual worlds.
The art of walking can be experienced as a reconceptualization of an environment, so my project focuses on experimenting of new ways of perceiving the surrounding reality by combining emotions with image and poetry, developing projects that aim to discuss a different vision of the world, presented in the form of visual narratives.
Mihaela Moțăianu - Visual Artist
"To see a city it is not enough to keep your eyes open. You must first discard everything that prevents you from seeing it - all inherited images and preconceived ideas." (Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities, 2011).
