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Discover @claudiabraileanu’s installation, Landscape with River, set in front of an AI generated sky in A RADIANT FUTURE.
Experience the entire virtual group exhibition online and in VR at epoch.gallery.
Claudia Bräileanu
Landscape with River, 2025
3D models, 3D scans, HD Video (20 sec), sound
Landscape with River has a physical anchor in Putna river, a natural border of Rächitosu village in Vrancea, Romania - a place of personal memories and a landmark for the locals. The river, once a natural border and a setting of shared memory, is undergoing a process of transformation - both physically and symbolically - as its place in the collective memory of the community gradually changes.
For decades, the area has been familiar with prolonged summer droughts, when the river dries up. However, in recent years, due to a combination of human-induced and natural factors, the river has become almost perpetually dry or reduced to a small stream. The cracks in the riverbed, formed by desiccation, emerge as traces of change and absence - markers not only of environmental shifts but also of transformations in memory, identity, tradition, and community life. The river’s role as a reference for belonging and boundaries, as well as an anchoring presence in the landscape and in the local cultural and social configuration, is diminishing.
The images, 3D scans, and video included in the work are part of a three-year exploration of the riverbank’s evolution, collecting fragments and details of its transformation, while witnessing the gradual dissolution of an order that once seemed persistent. The aim of this exploration is not to capture the river itself or document its changes, but rather to convey the impossibility of encountering it as it once was, highlighting the indissoluble relationship between landscape, perception, memory, and loss.
A RADIANT FUTURE brings together eight internationally acclaimed artists who envision a new promise for tomorrow. Their works are featured within a speculative 3D model of Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania-the site of the worst commercial nuclear accident in U.S. history (1979).
Experience the entire virtual group exhibition online and in VR at epoch.gallery.
Claudia Bräileanu
Landscape with River, 2025
3D models, 3D scans, HD Video (20 sec), sound
Landscape with River has a physical anchor in Putna river, a natural border of Rächitosu village in Vrancea, Romania - a place of personal memories and a landmark for the locals. The river, once a natural border and a setting of shared memory, is undergoing a process of transformation - both physically and symbolically - as its place in the collective memory of the community gradually changes.
For decades, the area has been familiar with prolonged summer droughts, when the river dries up. However, in recent years, due to a combination of human-induced and natural factors, the river has become almost perpetually dry or reduced to a small stream. The cracks in the riverbed, formed by desiccation, emerge as traces of change and absence - markers not only of environmental shifts but also of transformations in memory, identity, tradition, and community life. The river’s role as a reference for belonging and boundaries, as well as an anchoring presence in the landscape and in the local cultural and social configuration, is diminishing.
The images, 3D scans, and video included in the work are part of a three-year exploration of the riverbank’s evolution, collecting fragments and details of its transformation, while witnessing the gradual dissolution of an order that once seemed persistent. The aim of this exploration is not to capture the river itself or document its changes, but rather to convey the impossibility of encountering it as it once was, highlighting the indissoluble relationship between landscape, perception, memory, and loss.
A RADIANT FUTURE brings together eight internationally acclaimed artists who envision a new promise for tomorrow. Their works are featured within a speculative 3D model of Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania-the site of the worst commercial nuclear accident in U.S. history (1979).
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