Canoe
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Canoe with self-portrait - 150x50x15cm
Canoe with rug - 150x50x15cm
Canoe with rainbow snake - 150x50x15cm
Canoe with tree bark - 150x50x15cm
Canoe with Tiki - 150x50x15cm
About my work
My installations and performances explore the idea of the memory within the material, at the same time questioning the use of lanugage and of various techniques of recording used to prevent oblivion.
I am attracted to the idea of interacting with the public in order to create works, bringing out the innate creativity every human posseses. As a playful anthropologist, through public space interactions and performances, I explore the way people express themselves when using basic visual elements and are required to perform simple tasks - as writing thier signature on a canvas (”Asemia”) or drawing a map to help a stranger find his way around the city (”Maps of Everyday”). Sometimes I ask them to dive into lost memories through simple questions like: ”What words did you invent when you were a child?”. I record and use these words in performances that challenge the public to abandon the need to understand a written text, instead to enjoy it as a mere visual or audio sign. (”Breath Screen”, ”Omphalos”).
I consider handwriting as a precious tool for creativity slowly being lost to the use of electronic devices. I try to document its last traces before it*s gone.
Some of my favorite materials for developing installations and performances are rusted nails recovered from construction sites (”Increate”, ”Alchemy”, ”Hieropgyphs”), human hair, human breath as a visual sign (”Sensual Archaeology”).
As a painter, I create colorful abstract compositions with industrial oil and tar, inspired by the aesthetics of my own installations and by the reinterpretation of the aquatic environment.
Solo Shows and Residencies
2020 - Was Jetzt? - The National Library of Romania, Bucharest
2019 - Maps of Everyday - The National Museum of Maps and Old Books, Bucharest, Romania (solo show)
2019 - Under | Water - Pygmalion Gallery, Timișoara, Romania (solo show)
2017 - Increate - Atelier030202 Gallery Bucharest, Romania (solo show)
2016 - Sensual Archaeology - MORA Art Center - Bucharest, Romania (solo show)
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2019
- ”Stefan Jager” International Art Symposium, Jimbolia, Timiș, Romania
- Gernik Art Camp XVI, Gârnic, Caraș-Severin, România
2016- Skopje, Macedonia - Brashnar Creative Project
- Amsterdam, the Netherlands - Lectorate for Art and Public Space
2014-2015
- Sangeorz-Bai, Romania - ArtForest
- Strasbourg, France - Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin
2009-2010
- Yogyakarta, Indonesia - Institut Seni Indonesia
Studies
MA, BA - painting - National University of Arts, Bucharest, Romania, 2015
BA - literature - Lower Danube University, Galati, Romania, 2005
Projects
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