Until June 22nd, at Borderline Art Space in Iași, Romania, can be seen another of the "Post-human escapes" projects, co-financed by AFCN and the Austrian Cultural Forum. This time is about Gregor Eldarb and the project called TURBULENCE IN A CHANNEL”, an exbitibion curated by Cristina Moraru, that gathers paintings, graphics and video art. The opening took place on May 17th and we are talking about a project that combine science with art.

"Gregor Eldarb investigates the tensions created around the fluidity of matter, generating turbulence visualizations in water pools and reveling the heterogeneous rhythm of water current and their dynamics. Starting from Friedrich Christian Georg Ahlborn’s research on turbulences which insist on visualizing the active forces involved in moving around a stationary object in wind tunnels, Gregor Eldarb creates a cinematic apparatus consisting of a movable frame supporting a basin containing a mixture of black ink and silver pigment, a monitor installed above the frame in an angular position and a camera that captures the images projected on the basin surface which acts as a liquid mirror.

The flexible frame of the basin allows the liquid to move from left to right, producing a gravitational pendulum effect that generates a multitude of organic shapes on the surface. The basin’s structure also includes metal elements that function as experimental obstacles which generate tensions in the fluidity of the liquid mass, opposing resistance and altering the velocity of the liquid. This creates the turbulences − the fractures, the desynchronizations, the disturbances − that visually describe the nature of liquidity", points out the curator.

"The liquid constitution of modernity (Zygmunt Bauman) establishes the metaphor of fluidity at the foundation of the society organization. The liquid nature understood both, in economic terms − with reference to the circulation of capital − and in sociological terms with regard to the constitution of social relations, allows for a continuous mobility that favors a state of partial autonomy. Liquid matter infiltrates, seeps, flows, changes its course, overflows and inundates, taking control of the space it occupies. However, its autonomy remains partial as long as it depends on the solidity of the structure that contains it.

In a complementary manner, the series of paintings entitled Weird Reflections offers a processual spatial analysis based on the composite study of architectural models, sculptures, texts, words from poems or architectural elements. Approached as inventions of experimental forms, Gregor Eldarb's large-scale paintings visually trace unpredictable reflections, unusual projections and intersections of volumes that transcend the laws of geometry in an imaginary spectacle of the performativity of forms", adds Cristina Moraru.