100 Interventions & Observations
The bread and butter of my day-to-day way of thinking: being drawn to observe spatial and visual relations between things, people, words and gestures, and then making (material) interventions or just observations, in order to have a conversation with contexts I observed. Collated in this format with the works in no particular order. The number 100 is more of a suggestion, as I will not stop with the 100th observation (maybe then it turns to "hundreds").
1. om cu scaun la cap
(“om cu scaun la cap” = “one with a chair on their head”/ meaning a wise and calculated person)
Small wooden chair, carried at all times, ready to photograph people with it on top of their head, to create a moment of appreciation for their wisdom/wittyness.
2. the weight of the world, the weight of imagination
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I wanted in some form to carry the weight of the world on my shoulder, so I got a blue dot tattooed. To balance it out, on my left shoulder there is a green dot, which is the planet of my imagination. One contains all the events of the world, one is in a continuous collection of spaces, landscapes and objects I have seen or imagined.
3. temporar pitoresc
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(“temporar pitoresc” = ”temporarily picturesque”)
While the Universității Street in Cluj-Napoca was being refurbished (summer 2023), my favourite cafe and its sidewalk terrace became similar to a village “birt” (=pub). Chairs sitting on wobbly rocks, passerby becoming even more interesting to look at. It was temporarily picturesque*. I spray painted the words on the rocks that were to be covered by the new pavements.
*Only while making this artwork did I realise I was misusing the Romanian word for picturesque, wrongly thinking it meant beautifully rural/pastoral/archaic. Figured out my error by the similarity in the two languages of the word (pitoresc / picturesque). I think it still worked as an expression.
4. heavy words
Crooked vinyl-cut exhibition text removed with a heat gun, making letters crumble and contract into heavy flakes. Picked up and placed in a container for safekeeping.
5. me as a supporting column
Flexing my caryatid muscles 🏛️ at @hetnieweinstituut and @colognedesignmusem.
6. 1:1 rugs, sand and wood editions
Simple gestures made outdoors in order to make a temporary surface for hosting / gathering / introversion.
7. spatial relations : coloana infinitului
I love you Brâncuși.
print available for sale.
spatial relations : Icelandic rocks
8. 21st century fly
buzzing reflection, seen often in public transport and interior spaces with good lighting. see if you spot it on a sunny day.🪰📱👍
9. me reading a book about colour
(The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St Clair)
10. self discentered
My phones’ front camera stopped working, showing colourful streaks of colour. I developed a mechanism to continue taking pictures with the selfie camera, flipping the phone towards the subject of interest, making inanimate objects take crooked selfies. When the process was too frustrating, I took a “normal” picture, challenging myself to remember what was supposed to be in the photograph instead of the glitched colours.
11. great juxtaposition with Sam Jacob
While taking about reality and representation during a lecture for the European Architecture Students Assembly (2022), Sam Jacob showed an installation he made of a neon basket hoop. It just so happened the wall we were projecting his lecture on was underneath a real basket hoop, which made for a great contrast between what is real and what is represented.
12. a collective future performance
Batch of business cards, marked with a diagonal line drawn on their collective spines. If all the people I've ever handed a business card would decide to coordinate, they could reconstruct the line.
Good luck.
weekly more are being added from the archive ;)