Every Day a Little Death / Cada día un poco de muerte, 2006
Romina Orazi
Romina Orazi (Argentina, b. 1972). Every Day a Little Death / Cada día un poco de muerte, 2006. Digital color photograph. 24 ½ in. x 32 ½ in. Gift of the Artist. MOLAA Permanent Collection.
The work of contemporary artist Romina Orazi can be described as a juxtaposition between the theatrical and the natural. In Every Day a Little Death she carefully stages a scene where the viewer is left to wonder what is truly real and what is an act, what is deliberate and what is accidental.Through photography, Orazi experiments with ambiguous situations and feelings, pushing the boundaries of the artificial and genuine. natural. As a result, she also comments and reflects on human nature and modes of coexistence. Nothing is ever what it seems.
About the Artist
Romina Orazi's work links the relationship between culture and nature, interested in observation methods used by the natural sciences, in nomadic or adaptable shelters and dwellings, as well as the planting of plant species in marginal or inhospitic spaces, act as a metaphor for the life that proliferates, steep, even in the midst of adversity. Studio Visual Arts at IUNA and gardening at the botanist of the City of Buenos Aires.
Interested in the harmonious complexity of biological processes, her works address reproduction, connections and cooperation, from microorganisms to social systems, from traditional artistic languages, to collaborative projects, planting actions and community orchards. It repudiates the value of originality (private property of resources) as much as it esteems that of authenticity (the desire that motorizes its use or appropriation). It measures the success of your projects by their capacity for contagion. She is not interested in art as a power reproduction space, but as an instance of power availability.