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W e propose a visual discourse of Penelope’s self-restoration. At the same time, it is our first artistic expression of a larger future plat- form-project entitled: Ithaca, mon amour. This exhibition room is a living archive of Penelope’s never told story. Her story is grounded in the domestic details of her life as daughter, wife and mother as well as a queen who has to manage the house (Ithaca), for twenty years, single-handed. If we change our perception of a story, we change the story. This is the case of the Penelopiad, the novel written by Margaret Atwood in 2005. The writer has given Penelope her own voice so that she can tell her story at last, so that we might imagine the connections between the ancient myth and the contemporary reality. It is the time for Penelope to spin her confessions, weaving her web of words. She must have done a great many other things besides the weeping and weaving which Homer attributed to her. We are dealing here with a visual expression of a new identity starting from the idea of a relationship between a collective identity, a cyclical sense of time, and myth as a replacement for a narrative story. Now, Penelope is telling us her personal HIgh-STORY. La chambre de Pénélope, © 2015 General coordinator & scenographic project: Andra Panait, PhD, Architect Delia Sechel Perrois & Mioara Lujanschi Galerie « Ruine » 15, rue des Vollandes,1207 Genève

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We propose a visual discourse of Penelope’s self-restoration. At the same time, it is our first artistic expression of a larger future plat-form-project entitled: Ithaca, mon amour.

This exhibition room is a living archive of Penelope’s never told story. Her story is grounded in the domestic details of her life as daughter, wife and mother as well as a queen who has to manage the house (Ithaca), for twenty years, single-handed.

If we change our perception of a story, we change the story. This is the case of the Penelopiad, the novel written by Margaret Atwood in 2005. The writer has given Penelope her own voice so that she can tell her story at last, so that we might imagine the connections between the ancient myth and the contemporary reality.

It is the time for Penelope to spin her confessions, weaving her web of words. She must have done a great many other things besides the weeping and weaving which Homer attributed to her.

We are dealing here with a visual expression of a new identity starting from the idea of a relationship between a collective identity, a cyclical sense of time, and myth as a replacement for a narrative story.

Now, Penelope is telling us her personal HIgh-STORY.

La chambre de Pénélope, © 2015 General coordinator & scenographic project: Andra Panait, PhD, Architect

Delia Sechel Perrois & Mioara LujanschiG a l e r i e « R u i n e » 1 5 , r u e d e s V o l l a n d e s , 1 2 0 7 G e n è v e

Mirroring : we are divisible, we have a divisible self

A mirror can open up dizzying

perspectives; therefore, it may be

obtained an infinite regression in a

labyrinth of reflexions. It is an internal

duplication and reduplication.

The mirror makes the image to come

off the frame, while it may invite visitors

to enter the work of art.

The visual discourse of Penelope’s self restoration

The Weaving Chair: So I’ll spin a thread of my own

The Cage of Memories: a maze of images

Penelope and Odyssey

Penelope’s bed

Mirroring : we are divisible, we have a divisible self

Penelope and Odyssey

“I regard The Odyssey as a book of initiations, and the first initiation is that of Odysseus himself into a proper relationship to the female power (...)

Now, the female power must be recognized to make possible a proper relationship – what I call an androgynous relationship - in which the male and female meet as coequals.

They are equals, but not the same, because: when you lose the tension of polarities you lose the tension of life”

Josef Campbell, Goddesses: Mystery of the Feminine Divine)

The visual discourse of Penelope’s self restoration

The Weaving Chair: So I’ll spin a thread of my own

The Cage of Memories: a maze of images

Penelope and Odyssey

Penelope’s bed

Mirroring : we are divisible, we have a divisible self

The Cage of Memories: a maze of images

The thread not only links two separate parts (or which have been separated by an authority), but also it rectifies a hiatus. Just like music, the thread resets the initial order (illo tempore), unites the three cosmic levels (infernal, terrestrial and celestial) and the three psychological ones (conscious, subconscious, and unconscious).

The cage contains a grid mapping the space of memories. The linear figure of the memories’ maze is enforcing the sense of fragmentation, of the fragmented body of Odysseus in his long voyage.

The visual discourse of Penelope’s self restoration

The Weaving Chair: So I’ll spin a thread of my own

The Cage of Memories: a maze of images

Penelope and Odyssey

Penelope’s bed

Mirroring : we are divisible, we have a divisible self

The Weaving Chair: “So I’ll spin a thread of my own”

Penelope is telling her personal HIgh-STORY.

It is a new text. A text telling a never told story of Penelope. We create for that an art-texture. In Latin, textus means a weaving or a web. It is a topos where text and textiles are interwoven, hence the frequent use of the terms like web, embroidering or weaving to describe the novelist’s work of art. The texture is, in fact, an interlinked arrangement of elements comparable to those used in these four thematic installations.

The visual discourse of Penelope’s self restoration

The Weaving Chair: So I’ll spin a thread of my own

The Cage of Memories: a maze of images

Penelope and Odyssey

Penelope’s bed

Mirroring : we are divisible, we have a divisible self

Delia Sechel Perrois

Études post universitaires en Suisse: département de peinture à l’ESAV (Ecole Supérieure d’Arts Visuels), Genève (1992-1994) ; recherche Art Visuel CCC (Critical, Curatorial, Cybermedia) à l’École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts / HES Genève, à présent HEAD Haute École d’Art et de Design (2003-2004).

Études universitaires en Roumanie : Institut des Beaux-Arts “N.Grigorescu” Bucarest, département des arts décoratifs - tapisserie, prof. Theodora Stendl, classe de 1980.

Membre des associations :VISARTE (Société des Artistes Visuels) - SuisseUAP (Union des Artistes Visuels) - Roumanie

Expositions personnelles Roumanie:

“Paysages”, Château Lazarea (Harghita, 1985)

“La porte”, Galerie Maison de l’Art (Bucarest, 1989)“À la croisée des chemins”, Musée des Traditions Populaires de Bucovine (Gura Humorului, 2009)

Pays-Bas:“Tour et Abîme ” Galerie Covalenko, Geldrop, Eindhoven 1991

Suisse:“Metavoli” Galerie G.S.M.B.K. Berne 1993

France:“Mémoire d’un espace intérieur” Galerie Bagnorea, Annecy 1999“Jardin d’hiver”, Espace 13x13, MJC Centre Annemasse 2001“Éphémère”, Galerie “Atelier Luca”, Dieulefit 2008

Expositions de groupe dans des galeries en Roumanie, Norvège, Allemagne, Espagne, Italie, Canada, Mexique, Brésil, Suisse, France, Japon.

Participation au Salon international “Europ’Art Palexpo” à Genève et au

Centre d’Art Contemporain de Genève.

Œuvres dans des collections privées en Europe, aux États-Unis, au Japon, en Amérique du Sud.

Publications: “Hirondelle”, études d’un groupe d’étudiants et de professeurs participant au séminaire d’histoire et théorie de l’art, “Walter Benjamin”, ESAV École Supérieure d’Art Visuel, École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Genève.

Delia Sechel Perrois est née à Ploiești (Roumanie)Arrivée dans la région en 1992, elle a d’abord vécu à Genève ; elle habite actuellement en Haute-Savoie avec son mari et leur fils.

Contact : 1739 Route du Salève, 74560 Monnetier-Mornex, FranceTéléphone : +41 774704092 ; E-mail : [email protected]

Mioara Lujanschi

Mioara Lujanschi est diplômée en lettres de l’Université de Bucarest (1979) avec une thèse dédiée à la recherche structuraliste en poésie. Elle a reçu deux bourses de recherche en imagologie à l’Université d’Europe centrale de Prague.

- 1993-1995 : Projet de Recherche internationale (Roumanie, Bulgarie, République tchèque) intitulé « La mentalité hybride, résultat du Discours totalitaire en architecture».

- 1992 : Recherche en littérature comparée : « L’Hostie – Les symboles universels et l’Art en l’Europe centrale et de l’Est ». Son travail « On the Dismemberment of Image » a été présenté au Colloque international de littérature comparée à Prague.

- Expérience dans les projets de financement aux niveaux européen (Culture, Creative Europe, Leonardo, Phare, etc.) et international (UNESCO) dans le domaine des arts visuels, du patrimoine et d’ONG culturelles.

Mioara est un expert reconnu par les autorités gouvernementales grâce à ses 15 années d’expériences dans les domaines des initiatives culturelles, de la communication, ainsi que dans les programmes de développement durable.

Elle a travaillé à élaborer et à mettre en œuvre des projets dans le domaine culturel et dans le domaine du patrimoine culturel urbain et rural, en sensibilisant les populations et les ONG au développement des communautés.

Parmi ses nombreux séminaires spécialisés, conférences, expositions, on remarque notamment sa participation à l’Année européenne du dialogue interculturel (2008).

De 2010 à 2015 Mioara Lujanschi a co-organisé plusieurs cours d’été pour les étudiants en art et architecture en présentant ses analyses photographiques de l’espace en étude.

Contact : str. Ghirlandei 7, bl.45, sc 2, ap 31, Bucarest, RoumanieTéléphone : +40721806734; E-mail : [email protected]