Ioana Aron

I take my inspiration from personal emotions, and then build an entire world surrounding each emotion. It is always a challenge for me to refer to contrasting subjects, such as daily routine and poetry. The way I am trying to express different subjects is by creating an atmosphere and proposing painting at its limit of becoming an installation.

For this painting I’ve selected convenient parts from reality and then, mixed them with vegetal elements from a fictional world, a world that I make reference to also in my 3D HOTEL iterative project. I had as a point of inspiration the Ogygia island, where it is known from Mythology that Ulises met Calypso and lived with her for seven years.

I propose painting at its limit of becoming an installation. The main source of inspiration for this painting was the story of Calypso. It reveals my perspective over how Ogygia island, the place where she lived, reinterpreted becomes the environment of my alter ego.

The artwork Facing the Other Me is a recall to identity, to the hardest thing that we are dealing with during life: ourselves. It really is a challenge to get to know yourself and to accept who you are. This artwork is part of the project “3D HOTEL” – a project through which I create an atmosphere starting from this character (a fantastic self-portrait) that I’ve named Calypso. One day she goes on a trip and gets a room at a small hotel. She suddenly starts to remember things that she didn’t know she ever lived. Just watching in the mirror, she remembers her past from the very beginning.

Each soul builds a room where the temperament is locked. On the other side of the door the character features are left free, the ones that are influenced by the habits, preferences and values of parents, but preponderantly, by society norms. I dare to call this phenomenon “intentional filtering of personality” and to remember people this way that is it in our power to decide how tight should the door to your room be locked, or until when. Facing the old you means loving yourself by allowing you to remember what makes you different. 3D HOTEL is a project built on the idea of identity, of mind liberation and aspiration for transcendence.