Drawing from my personal experiences of growing up in a post-communist country, I am interested in the positionality of various systems, particularly institutions and machinery, as well as their dynamics of power. I primarily work with sculpture, drawing inspiration from memories of factory landscapes and crop fields in my hometown. My themes include estrangement, societal failure, identity, and post-humanism. I have a background in moving image and through my interdisciplinary practice I also create video art that reimagines narratives through the apparatus theory.

In my sculptures, I create organic shapes using reclaimed machinery parts or objects from junkyards, along with modelling elements like plaster or latex. These materials emphasise the ideas of growth and metamorphosis. I design figurative machines that examine the function of objects estranged from their original meanings, often resulting in malfunctioning machinery. My sculptures incorporate elements of repetition and mechanisation, as well as heaviness in size and weight, alongside fragility in both material and concept. This reflects on issues of identity and alienation, often stemming from inherited labour and societal failures. The works resemble machines that are intentionally malfunctioning and detached from their primary purposes. 

I grew up in a small city [population - 8.878; main occupations -  factory, agriculture, farms, crafts] in rural post-communist Romania. I became aware of the ways labour, migration, and economic change shape both people and the environments they inhabit. Through processes of transformation, I create works that explore the life of a worker, the afterlife of discarded objects, and experiences of estrangement, alienation, and belonging. My sculptures often occupy a space between the industrial and the bodily, drawing attention to the histories, tensions, and vulnerabilities embedded within materials.