Leaving The Nest

Nests are not simple volumetrically defined spaces where we grow and from which, at a certain point, we project our existences into other new nests, perhaps more fitting or larger, brighter, or more colorful. Nests are moment-spaces, whose non-physical components are strongly imprinted by our inner experiences. Thus, the nest becomes an extension of the soul it harbors. Vibrations, engrams, and ideas migrate from the soul to the nest and vice versa. We carry traces and experiences from old nests into new ones, with us, every time, with each departure, in a continuum of individual evolutions.

With a certain degree of uncertainty, we could say that one way or another, we’re all gravitating around the concept of the comfort zone.This might be our first unaware attempt to build and have one, or a conscious attempt to leave from an other: there’s a certain degree of mutual initiation in departing from one’s comfort zone and finding another. A common topos of these exhibits could be this concept: the ritualized space for secure growth and the momentum of it, the physical and the non physical loci of this process.

Strained through our artist’s filters Felicia Cotoman, Lisa Marie Schmitt & Alexandru Mihai Budes and Bandi Daniel David, the different remnants of their preoccupation with this topic are shown here and await discovery.

For Felicia Cotoman’s installation, we invite you to bring an object that has served its purpose, which you are ready to detach from and let it become part of her work.