“It can take 13 minutes, it can take 1440 minutes, it will be a different story every time. Whatever you find, it is about the story you can imagine. Not the truth.”
“There is this gap between the parts that doesn’t allow us to find who we actually are. Always searching and giving up. We are what they made us eat, what they made us read, made us watch, made us repeat, made us breathe.”
“We are all like silkworms, like bees that need to be exploited for what they can produce. Ugly, but useful.
Organized in these systems that don’t work for us.”
“Beauty. Body control, mind control and everyone is out of control. The heartbeat is not consistent any more. Can we start from the beginning?
I don’t believe there is a return to the comfort zone.”
The No return To comfort zone installation consists of a hybrid between a traditional classroom and a domestic space. It includes two 35mm projectors which lay the images on a screen, while the audience is invited to sit on small chairs to view them.
On the same side of the room, two static 35mm slide monitors show the same image continuously.
The images used for the projections are found materials which were used for educational purposes.
Elena-Andreea Teleagă (b. 1993)
She is a lens-based media artist whose work is rooted in photography. Using found materials or her own imagery, her work creates spaces for reflection, introspection and self-analysis. She graduated from a Masters course in Fine Art Media in 2019 at Slade School of Fine Art, having received the Sarabande: The Lee Alexander McQueen Foundation full scholarship, awarded by Matthew Slotover. She lives and works in London, U.K.