Your tomato garden, your desire to create a space of divine creation, the plant whose evolution you cannot control, you exploit perfection almost obsessively in your installations and objects. It seems to be the need to leave to chance, at least for one time, the development of your artwork. However you stop at the project, at the general sketch. Will the subconscious courage of the lack of control eventually become a reality?

To me, the space of divine creation is a space of a (divinely natural) reorganization of the elements in a given system. I find it favorable because I can learn about this reorganizing and I can interfere / interact with it - after all, this is what I do as an artist: I reorganize elements in various systems - aware of the infinite number of interactions between parts, aware that I cannot control or at least know them all. And that's why I tend to come back on a work many times before saying 'it's done'.

On the other hand, I understood a very important thing: if I were to compare one of my works with a system whose elements interact, then it would be enough to find a number (minimum) of elements which I can control, to build the system and deliver it (set free) to the world - then it would evolve in the most natural way possible, interacting with other systems - see public, critics, sales, notoriety or earthquakes and floods. That is my theory that verifies itself with the "End of Paris" - the work that has left me for some years and has evolved in directions that I haven't dictated and maybe don't even know. (Extract from an email exchange between Sebastian Moldovan and Razvan Ion for PAVILION - journal for politics and culture, May 2009)

Sebstian Moldovan (b.1982, Baia Mare) is a Romanian artist interested in urban and social research. He studied at the University of Art and Design in Cluj (Romania) and at L’École Regionale des Beaux-Arts, Nantes (France). Among other group exhibitions: Comfortably Numb, Kultur Kontakt, Vienna (2006), Dada East? The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich (2006 – 07). Also he was selected in Bucharest Biennale, Prague Biennale and Haifa Biennale.

Image: Sebastian Moldovan, Sketch for the "Sticks", ball point pen, pencil, A4, 2009. Courtesy of the artist.