works
"Crețești Studio Garden", HD, Video, 5 Min, with atmospheric sounds , 2022
This video was made for the 15th edition of the ”One World Romania” documentary film festival, invited by tranzit.ro, alongside other artists and groups who have studios in rural areas or have initiated some forms of cultural activities in these spaces. Cretesti studio garden is were I live and work and were my grandparents cultivated the land all their lives. The video captures daily moments in the garden in the month of May, mostly from the perspective of a dog also living on this farm.
"Letters to a Young Gardener", HD, Video, 25 Min, in English and German, with Romanian Subtitles, 2020
The artist performs letters received from various European and American institutions where she had applied for teaching and similar positions between 2018 and 2020. Concomitantly she performs seasonal gardening chores, between the months of March and October, in her grandparents' garden and greenhouse where her studio is also located. Video made for "Europa Wonderland" exhibition in Timisoara.
"The Myth of the Eternal Return", 8 Min., Several Languages, 2015
Video made of found footage, clips of videos found online from various international "Heidi" movies. All of the scenes included here are from the moment where Clara learns how to walk. It was made in 2015 during a two months residency in Zurich, Switzerland, just as a new Heidi movie was coming out. It was shown in "Growing Up and Staying Young-Tales of Heidi", Haus zum Palmbaum, Zurich (2015) and in "Being Mountains, Being Sees", Lateral ArtSpace, Cluj, Romania. (2017)
"Matonge - Tervuren", 25 Min., 2 Channel Video, 2014
Video made after a 2 month residency in Brussels in 2012, at Bains Connectives, with curator Anca Mihulet. Matonge Ixelles is the African Diaspora neighborhood in the Belgian capital and Tervuren is a small town outside Brussels where the Royal Museum for Central Africa is located. The museum had a then unbroken discourse of Belgian colonialism in Congo. Via interviews with Congolese artists we tried to make sense of these two worlds apparently so close to each other. The video juxtaposes our 2012 unbraiding performance with interviews and the Congolese Sape cultural mouvement, a form of artistic resistance to the aftermath of colonialism. Shown in "Dispositions in Time and Space" at MNAC Bucharest, 2014-2015.
"We, Our Friends and Us", 33 Min., in Romanian with English Subtitles, 7 Channel Video, 2013