2pe3galeria Bucharest, 2024
UV print on perspex, alucobond,
metal bars, found rocks, neon strips,
Aluminium flexibile pipe
The exhibition problematizes the uniform image of the globalized city, asserting the human body as a creative agent of urban space. Through photography, collage, video, performance and drawing, the city becomes a practiced space which residents and visitors alike occupy, build, remember and imagine across history.
My contribution, Hybrid Monuments, blends concepts from both the Situationist International and Robert Smithson's New Monuments to reinterpret everyday urban elements into hybrid sculptural forms. The work draws on the Situationist practice of dérive—an aimless drift through cities that uncovers unseen layers of urban life—exploring how we experience and reimagine our surroundings. The Situationists sought to disrupt capitalist urban structures, using spontaneous play and subversion to challenge how we inhabit cities.
Incorporating Smithson’s ideas of decay and regeneration, Hybrid Monuments captures urban traces—graffiti remnants, vandalized surfaces, industrial sites , shopfront typography, city peripheries —and transforms them into sculptural objects, underscoring the transient nature of cities. Like Smithson’s New Monuments, which reject classical permanence, my works
Works Presented:
MFN_SINAIA //PR_220mg
[ Hybrid Monuments ]
190 x 120cm
UV print on Perspex
Bent and melted on-site
Found materials, UV light,
Aluminium flexibile pipe
RNE_220 // 43°N 4°E
UV print on Alucobond, found rocks, metal pipe
190 x 120 cm
CNTRO_DGP 3143 // C^RD3N^S
A1 UV print on Alucobond
My contribution, Hybrid Monuments, blends concepts from both the Situationist International and Robert Smithson's New Monuments to reinterpret everyday urban elements into hybrid sculptural forms. The work draws on the Situationist practice of dérive—an aimless drift through cities that uncovers unseen layers of urban life—exploring how we experience and reimagine our surroundings. The Situationists sought to disrupt capitalist urban structures, using spontaneous play and subversion to challenge how we inhabit cities.
Incorporating Smithson’s ideas of decay and regeneration, Hybrid Monuments captures urban traces—graffiti remnants, vandalized surfaces, industrial sites , shopfront typography, city peripheries —and transforms them into sculptural objects, underscoring the transient nature of cities. Like Smithson’s New Monuments, which reject classical permanence, my works
Works Presented:
MFN_SINAIA //PR_220mg
[ Hybrid Monuments ]
190 x 120cm
UV print on Perspex
Bent and melted on-site
Found materials, UV light,
Aluminium flexibile pipe
RNE_220 // 43°N 4°E
UV print on Alucobond, found rocks, metal pipe
190 x 120 cm
CNTRO_DGP 3143 // C^RD3N^S
A1 UV print on Alucobond
