While a name is a cosmic prison, identity is its guardian.
As an artist, I am interested in choices: what remains to be seen, what is absent and how decisions are made.
As an artist originally form Romania, my work is informed by the relationship between my identity to my sense of displacement, memory/narrative, movement/changes, and the ways I have devised to reconcile these incongruous elements. My intricate yet expansive drawings tackle the dichotomy between containment and liberation by infusing a static diagram with a charge that propels into motion.
In my works I explore also the tension of contradictions: organized chaos and uncontrolled order, machine-like images and imperfections, recognizable/known and suggested. I also connect the dichotomies intrinsic to motion (past-present/past-future; transfer vs. change; progress vs. regress; action vs. reaction).
I incorporate in my visual lexicon, elements that either borrow directly from or reference Eastern European folklore, Constructivism, architectural diagrams and color theory charts.
Collectively, these references also create complex and fractured allegorical “maps” of my physical, emotional, and intellectual journey—a means to explore loss itself as a form of identity that transforms the schema of containment into a ritualized form of self-expropriation.
Within my work, I explore not only space and its division, but also the fluidity and tension of contradictions: organized chaos and uncontrolled order, machine-like generated image and imperfections, fictitious and concrete, recognizable/known and suggested. I also connect the dichotomies intrinsic to motion (past-present/past-future; transfer vs. change; progress vs. regress; action vs. reaction), with memory and perception: how do we remember stories/information, and how do we retell the stories or make associations between the pieces of information that we have. My aim is to map an articulated visual system of understanding the movement between memory and a posteriori experiences.
As an artist, I am interested in choices: what remains to be seen, what is absent and how decisions are made.
As an artist originally form Romania, my work is informed by the relationship between my identity to my sense of displacement, memory/narrative, movement/changes, and the ways I have devised to reconcile these incongruous elements. My intricate yet expansive drawings tackle the dichotomy between containment and liberation by infusing a static diagram with a charge that propels into motion.
In my works I explore also the tension of contradictions: organized chaos and uncontrolled order, machine-like images and imperfections, recognizable/known and suggested. I also connect the dichotomies intrinsic to motion (past-present/past-future; transfer vs. change; progress vs. regress; action vs. reaction).
I incorporate in my visual lexicon, elements that either borrow directly from or reference Eastern European folklore, Constructivism, architectural diagrams and color theory charts.
Collectively, these references also create complex and fractured allegorical “maps” of my physical, emotional, and intellectual journey—a means to explore loss itself as a form of identity that transforms the schema of containment into a ritualized form of self-expropriation.
Within my work, I explore not only space and its division, but also the fluidity and tension of contradictions: organized chaos and uncontrolled order, machine-like generated image and imperfections, fictitious and concrete, recognizable/known and suggested. I also connect the dichotomies intrinsic to motion (past-present/past-future; transfer vs. change; progress vs. regress; action vs. reaction), with memory and perception: how do we remember stories/information, and how do we retell the stories or make associations between the pieces of information that we have. My aim is to map an articulated visual system of understanding the movement between memory and a posteriori experiences.
