Liliia Liutko
Robert Koszewski
Cecilie Eugenie Tokle Kjedsen
Where Stillness Meets Transformation
Where Emotions Come Alive: A Dialogue Between Oil Painting and Digital.
Project Overview
Iter Affectum (Path of Emotions) is a multidisciplinary installation that combines classical oil painting with synchronised video projection and sound design. By activating a traditionally static medium through light and audio, the work transforms the painted canvas into a timed emotional experience.
Addressing Contemporary Disconnection
The Crisis of Authentic Connection
The crisis of true connection and superficial communication. In the age of digital technology and social media, people often experience a lack of deep, genuine emotional connections. Visualization of an insatiable, painful drive for contact. Flickering light threads and tense music symbolise the failure of digital relationships to satisfy emotional hunger. The paintings remind us of the primacy and power of physical, genuine sensuality and emotional intimacy as a fundamental human need.
Suppression of Complex Emotions
Contemporary culture often prioritizes productivity, positivity, and emotional efficiency, leaving little room for grief, anger, or ambiguity. In Iter Affectum, organic visual forms slowly emerge and transform, reflecting the psychosomatic consequences of suppressed emotional states. These processes evolve, acknowledging emotional complexity as a necessary and enduring part of human experience.
The Need for Introspection
The core social problem is the loss of focus and the inability to engage in self-reflection due to constant informational and digital distraction. Accepting this diversity of emotions as an identifier of one’s personality.
Transformation of videos. The chaotic elements move, flowing into one another. Processes are changeable and reflect emotional surges, which must be accepted as human nature.
Rather than providing instruction or solutions, Iter Affectum fosters conditions for emotional awareness. It views emotional diversity not as dysfunction, but as a vital part of modern identity, encouraging viewers to see emotion as a process rather than an outcome.
About
The project responds to the increasing pace and sensory overload of contemporary life, which often leads to emotional disconnection and reduced self-awareness. While human emotional experience is complex and evolving, it is frequently simplified or suppressed. Iter Affectum addresses this condition by creating a contemplative space that encourages viewers to slow down, reflect, and reconnect with their inner emotional landscape.
At the core of the installation is the tension between stillness and transformation. Oil painting, historically associated with permanence and fixed interpretation, becomes a living surface that changes over time. Through carefully synchronised visual and sonic elements, the work reflects the fluid and non-linear nature of emotion.
The installation guides the viewer through a structured emotional arc-ranging from intensity and fragmentation to calm, recovery, and acceptance-offering a cathartic yet accessible experience. Rather than positioning the audience as passive observers, Iter Affectum invites active emotional engagement and introspection
General layout of the exhibition.
The Synesthetic Method
Static Foundation
Oil painting on canvas provides the physical, tactile ground, capturing the peak or depth of emotional states through traditional painterly gesture and material presence.
Dynamic Interpretation
Curated video projection transforms the painting into a living surface, where light, decay, and movement are interpreted rather than merely animated.
Sonic Navigation
The sound narrative guides the installation, with audio shifts orchestrating visual transformation, ensuring complete sensory immersion.
