HEARING WITH THE EYES
19. September - 30. October 2021
"Hearing with the Eyes" explores the interaction that arises from the combination and contrast between digital and analog photography.
Moving images versus static recordings, abstract shapes and landscapes in the appearance of synchronized sounds.
An installation with projections of abstract film sequences, constructed from analogue recordings on transparent digital photographs of mountain landscapes.
The installation by Ruxandra Mitache is enhanced by the digital sounds of Pierre Ajavon added and creates an atmosphere of abstract emotional experience.
"Hearing with the Eyes" explores the interaction created by the combination and contrast between digital and analog photography, moving image versus
static frames, abstract shapes and landscapes in the appearance of synchronized
sounds.
An installation with projections of abstract moving images constructed from analog photography frames on transparent digital photographs of mountains, accompanied by specific sounds creating an atmosphere of abstract emotional experiences.
Hearing with the Eyes connects the traditional and modern mediums, translated in a constant rhythmic motions, black and white abstract shapes playing a hypnotic visual game before our eyes, the images reminding about memory and the passage of time.

Photo: Ruxandra Mitache
The plexiglass light object is especially created in this form, the juxtaposition of the three mountains is a conceptual study into the generous constellation of the photographic medium. I wanted them exposed like in a moving image sequence, the transparent layers of the printed images are silently moving between the constancy, firmness and stillness of this particular symbol of the mountain.
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The photograms are emotional light projections, like a spherical sound, they are particularly printed with a specific vibration of light, sequential movements and experimental time exposures.
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I think of poetry as a territory for sharing. I added the practice of writing to my work, and I began with small poems, I usually prefer to write experimental things. I found that writing helps me to imagine and construct the form of the movie or project that I want to start working on. The minimalistic touch of words is so colorful to me, with so many nuances. Writing poetry is very similar to writing music, the words are important fluids, transparent worlds of consciousness.
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Text by Ruxandra Mitache
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15 photograms with frame (30x24.5cm) - 2021, Ruxandra Mitache.
3 printed plexiglass and one neon light (120x67.5cm) - 2021, Ruxandra Mitache
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Eye Object (20x19cm) Plaster - 2021, Ruxandra Mitache
2 Framed Drawings (40x30cm) Marker on Paper - 2021, Ruxandra Mitache


Hearing with the Eyes, multimedia installation
Projection - 2021, Ruxandra Mitache
Sounds - 2021, Pierre Ajavon



Poems with sounds - 2021, Ruxandra Mitache
Ruxandra Mitache (Romania, 1979), visual artist who studied at the University of Fine Arts Bucharest, current lives and works in Montreux, Switzerland.
Working primarily with abstract painting and exploring transitive themes through video and installation.
Her creations were not only appreciated in her adopted country, but also internationally. Her numerous exhibitions and participations in video art festivals attest to this.
In painting, she relies heavily on the suggestive force of colors, her approach being particularly oriented towards the field of lyrical abstraction.
She is interested in the interaction of light with different mediums, in the relationships that revealed in nature.
Pierre Ajavon is a visual artist, composer & musician.
After sociology studies focused on psychedelic culture, he moved into video art when he saw the possibility of bringing the sound and moving image together.
Pierre Ajavon specialized in researching sound visualizing via Pop imagery.
Mixing electronic music, psychedelic rock and field recording for his musical research, he produced many experimental short films which he filmed, edited, and designed the music production.
Pierre Ajavon lives in Paris and exhibits internationally.

