PRESENCE IN ABSENCE

 

Usually rooted in the exploration of color through her chromatic abstractions, Alina Schiau has developed this white series in parallel, fascinated by the duality and fundamental concept of visible/invisible that runs through all her work.

In PRESENCE IN ABSENCE, the artist reveals that the invisible has its own existence. Drawing on the concept of the prism—a central metaphor in her artistic approach—she demonstrates that white is not an absence of color, but a powerful revealer of nuances, textures, and forms that are usually overlooked by our everyday gaze.

Each work explores a different facet of white: sometimes sculptural material with subtle reliefs, sometimes pure light that dialogues with space, sometimes silence inhabited by invisible presences. These variations create a subtle dialogue between presence and absence, where emptiness becomes a space of potentiality rather than lack.

By deliberately choosing monochrome, the artist invites us to refine our gaze, to perceive what lies hidden in apparent simplicity. These works whisper that our perception of the world, often limited to the immediately visible, misses out on an unsuspected richness—that of silences, pauses, and breaths between things.

PRESENCE IN ABSENCE thus stands as an essential counterpoint to Alina Schiau's colorful work, revealing that the invisible has its own presence.

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