Category: WORKS

• The Stairway’s Ecosystem

  photo, metal grid, photo frame, optical fiber lamp, 2006/2016

  
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

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• Dispelling Illusions

  video, b&w, sound, 6:24 min, 2022/2025

  Illusion has two sides. That visual phenomenon where perception is tricked by form, light, and perspective: what we see is not always what is there. The illusions of our own thinking: assumptions, expectations, and narratives shaping how we interpret reality. While optical illusions reveal the limits of our eyes, illusory thinking exposes the possible scenarios of our mind.
  
  This duality emerged from a very ordinary context. As construction and home renovations have expanded widely in Romania since the 2000s, many homeowners have experienced a similar disappointment: work done quickly, superficially, or carelessly by craftsmen. What initially looks finished and convincing often hides fragile execution underneath. The illusion of quality collapses once the surface is questioned.

  This one-shot video documents a simple act: removing ceramic tiles that had been installed hastily by workers. As the tiles come off, the hidden structure becomes visible. What first appeared solid reveals gaps, shortcuts, and inconsistencies. The gesture becomes both literal and symbolic, an attempt to peel away the surface and expose the distance between appearance and reality.
  
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

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• The Missing Poem

  mixed media installation (table, wood burning pen, video, sound) variable dimensions, 2015

  
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

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• The Changing… [nu mă (mai) gândesc / I’m not thinking (anymore)]

  neon sign, variable dimensions, 2015

  Sometimes I think, sometimes I am.
  — Paul Valéry on Descartes’ famous statement I think, therefore I am, as human existence is not defined only by thinking. Sometimes we think, and sometimes we simply are.

  
  

  

  

  kinema ikon - serial, Art Museum, Arad

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• White

  photography, variable dimensions, 2012 – ongoing

  Sometimes, I’m following tracks in winter…

  
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

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• Fata Morgana

  HD video, 11:00 min, 2012

  co-author & camera Huba Antal
  sound Szilárd Szőke

  part of the Waiting Spaces project

  

  

  making of, photo Anca Gyemant

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• Pe vremea noastră era altfel… (In our time, it was different…)

  neon sign, 460×50 cm, 2013

  as part of the project Waiting Spaces

  
  

  

  

  

  

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• Attempt to Immortality (after Paik)

  mixed media installation (surveillance camera, tv monitor, taxidermized marmot, pedestal) 100x40x50 cm, 2018

  Commissioned by kinema ikon for MAFA5 – De Rerum Natura

  
  

  

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• Fragments of The Day / Fragmentele zilei

  HD video, b&w, 9:20 min, 2020

  Our daily activities and mobility are constrained, limited, and fragmented. The readjustment of our ever-changing daily routine is disrupted by a heightened sense of unpredictability. The multitude of information and news accelerates our thoughts —between the present, past, and future. It distorts reality. Conspiracy becomes reality.
  The video camera and sound recorder become witnesses and observers of the present, capturing fragments of my daily activity during the state of emergency—events at home, captured from the window and outside, on the way to the shops or during walks around the neighborhood.
  These short fixed-camera shoots and sound recordings, captured over the course of a week at different times of day, cover the cycle of a day and form the basis of the work. The footage shot on different days is organized sequentially by recording time, thus compressing a week into a single day.
  This series of sequential micro-narratives, with a docu-fictional character, offers a personal reflection during the pandemic.
  The sound of the video sequences is dissociated and inverted, the interior with the exterior and vice versa, dislocating the image from its original context, implicitly our perception of reality…
  
  Made in the frame of Artists Rooms program, by Fundația 9

  

  

  

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• Time Within Time

  HD video, 2010 – ongoing

  Desemnând sunetul ca ghid, în ultimii 15 ani am străbătut diferite zone ale orașului, indiferent de anotimp. În acești ani a acumulat în jur de 8-10 ore de material filmat, care a ajuns să constituie o bază de date cu fragmente ce surprind momente și etape din mediul în care trăiesc. Un jurnal de situație, de moment și de prezență sau absență. Sunt zone pe care le revizitează după ani, pentru a observa schimbările. Acestea se produc inevitabil, la scară mică sau mare, măsurabile foarte ușor pe plan vizual. Sunetul însă are o altă dinamică – e mult mai versatil, temporar și niciodată la fel.

  Presented at it

  Proiect finanțat de CDP

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  some excerpts from 2011, entitled previously City of Noise

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