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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Dragged Poetry


I question the impossibility of encountering a (natural?)rock that might contain letters, or poetry inside of itself. How high is the improbability of geological sediments to make readable letters inside of a solid? Consider that they found the cookie monster inside of a rock.

Two prototypes were made, with the same story. One was attached to the bike, and one was sanded down, layer by layer, to study the transitions of the solids’ section. Once gone the letters are too far dispersed as particles to be readable or reconstructable into letters.The entire story is read only by the object being used to its completion/finality.

A hard surfaced solid, with only occasional metaphorical softness inside. It is an experience and the rock performs once, or never, either containing or never again saying the same thing.








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