Irena Romih - Interspaces

Visual creativity reacts to contemporary society with positivist socialisation. Experiences found in television information, newspapers, books and especially the everyday environment represent a broad spectrum visualisation of virtuality and reality, virtual and real reasons for formation and development, seeming and real motifs and goals, virtual and real contents and qualities of events and occurrences. Getting to know the background is a reward for precision and the desired goal of observation. Imprecision and a non-critical approach limit us to our own pretence. In the conscious and cognitive effects of artistic expression the results are often found in the cross-section between appearance and essence. This cross-section of artistic expression is meticulously presented by Irena Romih.

Milena Koren Božiček

In my paintings the gap represents the binding. With the introduction of the white gallery wall the gap or the void becomes an active artistic and narrative element within the painting. A stick, fence, grid. Simultaneously virtual and real.

Hands represent the second and more obvious element. The palm physically joins two surfaces, while simultaneously holding and embracing the void. The individual or the masses with a palm or infinite palms. Fleeing, waiting, hoping - all with the movement of the hand.

Irena Romih