The famous aphorism “panta rhei” (πάντα ῥεῖ) / “everything flows” – attributed to Heraclitus and summarising his philosophical concept, teaches us that change is real, and stability is illusory.
Mihaela Moțăianu’s photographs are visual metaphors of the ideas of permanent movement, change, and transformation. Whether the photographs represent the very transformation of matter through burning or flowing or short stories of a character moving or intervening in an environment they transform, the images capture snapshots of the permanent “flow” of matter, our thoughts, our feelings, and our perception of the world.
The photographs exhibited are part of the graphic concept signed by Mihaela for the international journal Design | Arts | Culture, Volume 3, Imagine and Memory, published by the Doctoral Studies of the National University of Arts Bucharest in partnership with the Department of Design, Interior Architecture and Audiovisual Documentation of the Faculty of Applied Arts and Culture of West Attica University of Athens. The exhibition was open between the 6th to 21st of June 2023 at the Galeria 15 Design, curated by Associate Professor Marina Theodorescu.
