Since early February, Daniela Palimariu from Bucharest has been message salon embassy’s new resident in Zurich Nord.
Born in 1986, she is a co-founder of the artist-run space sandwich gallery, which opened in 2016. Located between two buildings of a former paint factory, in a dirty non-descript location in one of the industrial quarters outside the center of the Rumanian capital, the gallery has become an important and highly regarded meeting place for the Bucharest art scene. Sandwich gallery invites international and local artists to create a site-specific installation in this in-between space.
In one of the first exhibitions, Daniela Palimariu transformed the interspace into a simple swimming pool. Under the motto of wellbeing and leisure, the installation “Pool Party” became a small refuge, rebelling against the everyday drudgery, pessimism and fatalism of the unabating summer days. “Pool Party” is a moment of the good life and of generosity. Daniela Palimariu’s installation interrogates the capacity of art to appropriate spaces and shape new perceptions through its subversive power.
In Zurich, Daniela Palimariu is seeking exchanges and networks in the local art scene. The artist is interested in the societal context and the cultural-political discussion in the Zurich art scene. At her work and living space in the cooperative mehr als wohnen on the Hunzikerareal, she encounters concepts from urban planning and the world of cooperatives.
At the message salon embassy studio, the artist is continually working on sketches and models for possible installations dedicated to wellbeing and social exchange. Daniela Palimariu makes abstract collages about jacuzzi tubs, seating furniture or rumpus rooms. With typographic, neon-colored song lyric-messages streaming out of the studio into the common area, she offers the neighborhood instant conversation starters.
Daniela Palimariu and artist Marta Margnetti, co-founder of the Sonnenstube art space in Lugano, will spend Easter at the message salon embassy atelier during the Progetto 6000 art festival, which showcases the young Ticinese art scene in Zurch this spring.
The two artists will create a setting for a public get-together, including an artist talk on Thursday, April 5th, hosted by Le Foyer manager, Gioia dal Molin.
At the end of Daniela Palimariu’s stay at message salon embassy, Madame l’Ambassadeur is hosting a goodbye party to present message salon embassy’s Zine #11.