IMMINENT DETOUR

Imminent Detour / Andreea Samoilă (1996,RO) is a visual artist interested in objects, words and tools after they depart from the "manual" version of themselves.

She works under the name Imminent Detour to give a nod to memory palaces, and because she is in no rush to get to the point.


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IMMINENT DETOUR

Andreea Samoilă (1996,RO) is a visual artist, and an independent editor & art director of printed matter. She is interested in objects, words and tools after they depart from the "manual" version of themselves.

She makes objects, books and actions focussing on witty uses of objects, unexpected associations and word-play. Andreea works under the name Imminent Detour, giving a nod to memory palaces, imaginary spaces and times in which to anchor new information.

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Temporary Tattoo

Plastic stamp, imprinting the word "temporar(y)" on the skin.

📸 @mogamariusdan
2023


The 1 Meter Book

A taylor meter in the form of a book, for on the go measuring.
2023


100

One hundred spatial and visual relations between things, people, words and gestures, either as (material) interventions or just thoughts.

(upload from the archive still in progress...)
2023 - ongoing

Scorched Earth

While in Greece during the week of summer forest fires (July 2023), shoulders sat outside with little to no sunscreen. Small tattoo of the earth got scorched by the sun.
2023

A 1:1 Lecture Performance

A 1:1 lecture performancewhere surfaces became a space for play .
2023

pe mine circulă gânduri la viteze mari

Graffiti on a bridge with constant traffic ( = “on me travel speedy thoughts” / “thoughts travel fast on me”)
2023

Dragged Poetry

A hard solid, with only occasional metaphorical softness inside. By dragging or sanding the rock, it sheds one layer at a time. A short story is revealed once, or never.
2021 - 2023

Mobile Exhibition

An OSB plywood becomes a portable gallery space with space for 8 artworks. The 2023 summer edition  includes three artworks about “orienting in space”.
2023


EASA 1:1

The 2022 European Architecture Students Assembly,  a two week event exploring the 1:1 scale through quick-moving surfaces, constructions, maps, fonts, discourse and soap.
2022

Loud Objects

A repository of essays and stories on everyday observations of used objects and surfaces.
2022


Not So Far From Around Us

A video about a corner projected into a corner, and other works echoing their subject matter . One day exhibition about the things not so far from us.
2021




mă agăț de cuvinte

= I hang onto words. A hanger for accessories and clothes, to be hung on literal words.

Emotional weight sold separately.
2019


Collages & Scans

Unstructured tests and visual research along the way, in no particular order.
2017 - 2023 (ongoing)


Time Itself

A chase of time done with chalk.
2020


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