too and there is not competition but love. Your works — more specifically WORLD IN INFRARED and INTO THE TRAP OF MATTER — often challenge the viewers' perceptual parameters, inviting your audience to discern and interpret. In this sense, we daresay that your artistic practice seems to aim to look inside of what appear to be seen, rather than its surface, providing the spectatorship with freedom to realize their own perception: how important is for you to trigger the viewers' imagination in order to address them to elaborate personal interpretations? In particular, how open would you like your works to be understood? Elena Buftea: In this pandemic time the artist soul is like a horizon line between 2 worlds. Some see it vertically, others horizontally, therefore it can be a cross scape CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW Elena Buftea Land
or a golden spiral. You are an established artist and over the years you participated to a number of exhibitions: how do you consider the nature of your relationship with your audience? By the way, as the move of Art from traditional gallery spaces increases, scape CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW Land Special Edition
how would in your opinion change the relationship with a globalised audience? Elena Buftea: The trends in art change dailyand the aim of art seems to provoke extreme senzations and the globalisations sifts from this artistic explosion what is valuable . The Art scene is a global market with dealers, collectors, galerists, competitions but ART cannot be controlled and organised like an industrie. Artificial intelligence can create quickly and efficiently but inflation reduce again art to utility and tekhne art die. THE MUSES CANNOT SING TO ORDER, THEY CRY UNDER DICTATORSHIP! scape CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW Elena Buftea Land An interview by Josh Ryder, curator and Melissa C. Hilborn, curator [email protected]