Synthetic Configurations of Open Space

Mobius Gallery, Asociația Kontakt, and the Museum of Art Constanța are pleased to announce the opening of Synthetic Configurations of Open Space, the first museum exhibition by artist Natalia Silaghi, winner of First Prize in the inaugural edition of the Ecaterina Vrana Awards for Emerging Women Artists (P.E.V.A.).

Through this exhibition, the PEVA project expands into the museum sphere, further advancing the mission of Romania's first initiative dedicated to the active, long-term support of emerging women artists.

 

Exhibition Opening: Wednesday, 12 August 2026, 3:00 PM
Venue: National Museum of Art Constanța
Address: 82–84 Tomis Boulevard, Constanța
The exhibition will be on view until 1 September 2026

 

Synthetic Configurations of Open Space

Natalia Silaghi proposes an experience that is both deeply personal and universally accessible, unfolding within a broader sphere shared by us, the viewers. Her work offers a reinterpretation of the landscape through intimate scenes that remain firmly rooted in the contemporary world. It reveals a kind of hallucinatory filter that Silaghi applies—not artificially, but with the discernment of an artist who has found an increasingly distinctive visual language through specific techniques and confident aesthetic choices.

 

Most of the works presented at the National Museum of Art Constanța were created over the past year. Together, they construct a fractured universe that is simultaneously abstract and recognizable—a dimension in which irregular forms drift slowly through a gravity-free outer space. Silaghi identifies the point at which nature contaminates the artificial and the artificial, in turn, reshapes nature:

"My works explore outer space as a territory of projection and image construction. My interest begins with the direct observation of nature but moves toward spaces situated at the threshold between the real and the imaginary, where landscape ceases to be a recognizable place and instead becomes a field of possibilities. The sky, clouds, light, gradients, and atmospheric phenomena are not merely subjects of representation but instruments through which I investigate the relationship between sensory experience, perception, and the contemporary image of nature." — Natalia Silaghi

 

The exhibition presents reinterpretations of familiar everyday realities, deconstructing and reconstructing them within chromatic and structural frameworks that recall both Paul Klee and Katharina Grosse. Synthetic Configurations of Open Space unfolds as a carefully orchestrated kaleidoscope of possible realities. Most of the paintings are built upon ambitious geometric structures, resolved through pictorial planes where colour acquires crystalline, acidic, and often psychedelic qualities. These colours evoke an experience suspended somewhere between fresco, digital glitch, and neon light.

 

The works possess a metaphysical three-dimensionality—a carefully orchestrated chaos of planes and forms. We enter a kind of augmented reality in which what we already know becomes even more apparent while simultaneously allowing us to imagine alternative scenarios generated through the overlapping of surfaces, volumes, and perspectives. We encounter what Natalia herself describes as the post-landscape: hybrid territories where nature and the artificial become inseparable. These are landscapes devoid of human figures, where human presence is implied rather than depicted. Their boundaries remain fluid, shifting in real time according to the viewer's perception. The exhibition invites us to navigate these possible realities much like a video game, where the superimposition of multiple layers gives rise to an entirely new reality.

 

Natalia Silaghi's paintings are synthetic scenographies developed within her own artistic laboratory through increasingly refined and self-assured methods. They are almost dissociative moments that encourage us to detach ourselves from what we already know in order to imagine how reality might exist otherwise.

 

Natalia Silaghi (b. 1999, Oradea) lives and works in Bucharest. She graduated in Painting from the Faculty of Arts and Design in Timișoara and is currently pursuing doctoral studies. Her practice spans painting and installation, exploring the relationship between image, perception, and environment. Her artistic research revolves around our relationship with the surrounding world, with a particular interest in colour, the banality of everyday objects, domestic space, and nature. Beginning with direct observation and photographic imagery, she constructs compositions that exist between reality and imagination, investigating the ways in which spaces are perceived and transformed. Her work has been exhibited at the Romanian Cultural Institute in Venice, the Art Encounters Foundation, Mobius Gallery, and the Sibiu Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2024, she was awarded First Prize in the inaugural edition of the Ecaterina Vrana Awards for Emerging Women Artists (P.E.V.A.).