The Evasive Diary

Nita Mocanu. DO NOTHING / The Evasive diary. 2014. Black and white photographs, prints from personal diary, digital images print. various sizes

The evasive life after art

Between the artist no longer exists and the artist is right here, the personal diary traces this continual back-and-forth

After a five-year break from artistic activity, this installation becomes a condensed exposition and a testimony of life lived outside art. It emerges as an introspective journey intertwined with the artist’s identity in a poetic form. Text takes center stage in this intimate presentation: the personal diary, including censored fragments, records a private journey woven together with artistic searching, while other texts appear embedded in photographs, landscapes, drawings, or borrowed from screenshots with subtitles. Together, these materials form a poetic map of the past years. Their meaning remains subtle and resists obvious interpretation, as the artistic persona exists only vaguely and evasively within the artist’s personal life, turning this installation into an act of self-exposure that marks the closing of a chapter.

Exhibitions

The Evasive Diary, Kinema Ikon Serial Season 1 Episode 7, Arad Art Museum RO