The year 2024 is marked, in the field of art and culture in Romania, by the presence of Carmen Marin’s artworks. Awarded nationally and internationally, with an impressive record of appreciation from art critics and personalities in the world of culture, the artist exhibits at WIN Gallery a series of works that amplify and extend her exhibition "Absences. Being in Empty Space" from the National Museum of Contemporary Art. Simultaneously, Carmen Marin is also present in the Iberian Peninsula in a related exhibition in Marbella, alongside paintings by Constantin Pacea, all three events being clear demonstrations of her stature as an international artist.
Memory of absence or ipseity of presence?
Thematically, the artworks created by Carmen Marin bring to the viewers' attention an often cold, claustrophobic imagery, which through their chromatics and dynamics manage to capture precisely the visual uncertainty of memories that we all face. This dialectic manages to condense easily through the artist's talent and work, the result being one in which we can see representations of the self's reclusion, an in rem siege where the memory of absence has the power to both evoke and invoke powerful visual elements.

