Alles Blau

Daniela Palimariu (*1986) knows only one direction, and that is forward. But slowly, please, so she can enjoy the ride. Born and raised in Iași, Romania's second-largest city that is still referred to as the Moldavian capital, she spent a formative and liberating year at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire in the US of A, where she discovered that in your art, «you don't have to have big statements and change the world immediately». During her Master's studies in Falmouth, UK, she abandoned her initial foray into art photography and started developing controlled environments for eating or napping («Superstition Lunch Party», «Dinner in the Love Boat», «The Platform»). The «Small Accidents Café», currently installed at Nicodim gallery in Bukarest, conntects to these early works. When Daniela visited me on a sunny morning in April, together we traced the path leading to her artist residency at message salon embassy Zürich Nord, where she crafted a collection of two-dimensional volumes from neon colored paper