Hold Fast to Dreams
"Browsing through my repository of images, I started to be attracted by a subconscious theme running through the work that was induced by childhood memories of the Black Sea: an archive of nostalgic moments mapping my own displacement in the New World.
Roaming between panoramas and close ups, all the new, the lens of time over exposes the old glam in subconscious dreamscapes."
About Mina Teslaru
Mina Teslaru (°1982, Bucharest) makes photos and installations. By exploring the concept of landscape in a nostalgic way, Teslaru investigates the dynamics of landscape, including the manipulation of its effects and the limits of spectacle based on our assumptions of what landscape means to us. Rather than presenting a factual reality, an illusion is fabricated to conjure the realms of our imagination.
Her photos establish a link between the landscape’s reality and that imagined by its' conceiver. These works focus on concrete questions that determine our existence. By examining the ambiguity and origination via retakes and variations, she creates intense personal moments masterfully created by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles.
Her works never shows the complete structure. This results in the fact that the artist can easily imagine an own interpretation without being hindered by the historical reality. By applying abstraction, she tries to increase the dynamic between audience and author by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations.
Her works doesn’t reference recognizable form. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted. Mina Teslaru currently lives and works in Roxbury, NY.
Group Show Exhibitions
Greenpoint Gallery - Brooklyn, NY - April 2010
Norfolks NYC Gallery - New York, NY - May 2010
Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY - November 2010
Skunk Funk - San Francisco, CA - March 2012
Whitewall - Berlin, Germany 2013
Atlantic Gallery Chelsea - New York, NY - December 2013
Le Bon Marche - Paris, France - August - October 2015
Zimmermann Heitmann - Dormund, Germany - July, 2015
Hilt Kelly Gallery - Roxbury, NY - November 2015
Longyear Gallery - Margaretville, NY - February, 2016
Hilt Kelly Gallery - Roxbury, NY - March, 2016
Press
My photographs have been written about in various publications & blogs, noteworthy mentions include: Inc. Magazine, Lucky Magazine, Canadian House & Home, Homes & Gardens - British Edition, Apartment Therapy, Decor8, MocoLoco, Design Work Life, Elements of Style, Design for Mankind, Iconology, My Modern Metropolis, Latina Magazine, and much more.
Collaborations:
Urban Outfitters
Trader Joe's
Turning Art
Le Bon Marche
Art Collectives:
Brooklyn Collective
Norfolks NYC
Rosie's Handmade Revolution
50,000 Sea Monkeys
