INNER SPACE. Inhabited space & Unbound spaces: A journey through inner and outer spaces

In the first stage of the exhibition, Corina IRSIK proposes an intense and introspective pictorial discourse on the inner space of the human being. Through a gestural and layered language, her painting pursues a mapping of emotions, a visual meditation on the process of self-transformation. Her works seem to pulsate between vulnerability and strength, between the body and the mind, between gesture and reflection. In this context, the work Brain Wash becomes a core of the approach: a territory of deconstruction and purification, in which the pictorial matter is freed from recognizable form to reach areas of pure, instinctual expression.

The metaphor of the journey — a constant in Corina Irsik's work — takes on a multiple dimension here. It is, on the one hand, the individual's inner itinerary, seen as a process of becoming and self-awareness; on the other hand, it is the physical journey of the visitor through the vertical space of the tower, forced to climb, to rise symbolically. In Corina Irsik's vision, the metal structure of the central staircase in the Firefighters’ Tower and the elevator functions as the "fascia" of the exhibition — a connective tissue that links and relates distinct territories of the psyche. Just as the fascia, in the human body, connects, supports and allows mobility between different systems, so the metal infrastructure of the tower unites the segments of the exhibition, allowing the visitor to move trough the layers of inner experience. The ascent becomes an organic process: a continuous movement between introspection, the inhabited space and the architecture of liberation, in which the visitor's body becomes part of the mechanics of this spatial transformation.