Emanuela Lucaci

In Emanuela Lucaci’s paintings, we recognize dreams, complexes and relics of a fictive memory lost in an eternal psychic labyrinth. Often, the result is a newly obtained image, radically different from the initial syntax of the referent. If artwork can be defined as the expression of subjectivity, then the paintings by Emanuela Lucaci are more than everything else a diary of her experience. Expressed either by figurative or abstract means, they evade definition because the content is as fluid as our memory, or our dreams, and reference multiple preoccupations translated into permanently shifting visuals. 

Here, time is not a narrative sequence of events, going from the past to the future, but evolves on multiple parallel lines. The style becomes thus as adaptable as the concepts it attempts to translate, and in the same time unmistakably personal. From an exploration of the shifting dynamic of light and dark to a quest of finding the sacred in the profane, to an exploration of the dream state as the perfect balance which can rarely be achieved in a new universe governed by a different system of rules, a multitude of themes co-exist in the universe of this fascinating painter. 

2010 DA, New York