Roses and immortal sentiment
In the exhibition ‘Laboratory of Living Sentiments,’ Magdalena Lazar uses a formal means characteristic of advertising and relaxation materials. With these, she creates a three-channel video that is an idyllic and hyper-realistic visualisation of an attempt to forever preserve what seems to be doomed to be ephemeral. The rose, as a symbol of transience, futility, but also eternity, plays the main role in the video screened in the Kostka Gallery.
Preserving what is fleeting
It is actually a love story that at that time moved the young girl towards an extraordinary experiment. She preserved, conserved and immortalised a white rose given to her by her beloved forever so that it can never wither.
“I didn't want to dry it, I like living sentiments,” says the artist. She had a simple recipe for a chemical compound, which the object is to be infused with.
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