Elena Stanciu

PETRIe • 13th November 2020

Everything ends and the show begins — An interview with photographer Michele Brancati

Originally from Italy, now based in Germany, Michele Brancati focuses on photojournalism. He traces his love for photography to first encounters with the greats of the mediums of photography and cinema at the University of Bologna. His work is indeed...

This is Odense • 12th November 2020

View from the mud

“A world [is] the sum of many things – the people, the dirt, the growing things, the moons, the tides, the suns – the unknown sum called nature, a vague summation without any sense of the now.” - Frank Herbert, Dune Looking at Thomas Klein’s...

This is Odense • 12th November 2020

Bodytecture - Archaeology of today

“Bodytecture” is a touching series of works by artist Dan Stockholm, currently on show at gallery M100. Moving around the selected works is one of those rare and beautiful experiences of discovery, of poetry jumping out of your body, when you didn’t...

PETRIe • 6th July 2020

Thinking Through Other Things – In Conversation with Lenka Clayton —

Lenka Clayton is an interdisciplinary artist whose works are clever, witty instances of engaging with the “every day.” The artist uses objects and language, intentions and relations, stories and traces, to intervene in the mundane and propose new...

PETRIe • 6th July 2020

A more meaningful physical future. The designs of Hank Beyer and Alex Sizemore —

Industrial designers Hank Beyer and Alex Sizemore present a new series in their portfolio of objects designed to challenge commonly held positions on the function and purpose of objects that surround us. For the Rest of Us is a series of recognisable...

PETRIe • 6th July 2020

Living generously together. Thoughts on a riverbed —

We live together because there is no other way. The lives we have built are intricately connected and dependent on each other. The alternative to togetherness is not isolation, but better togetherness. Or so we thought. The question of how we live...

PETRIe • 14th October 2019

The heavy body and the poetic self: exile into the sensuous society —

The Sisters Hope manifesto revolves around the ideas of sensuous society and sensuous learning, formulated in response to the 2008 economic crash. With a solid theoretical framework based on the works of John Dewey, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Antonio...

PETRIe • 6th May 2019

Life and Vision on the Frontier: Indigenous Art in North America

Short analysis and interview with North American indigenous artists, on their work and process approaching issues of imperialism, de-colonization, identity, history, and collective memory. The article was published in PETRIe 68: Inequality

PETRIe • 17th April 2019

ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY: PERFORMING LIFE IN INBETWEEN SPACES —

Danish architecture photographer Kirstine Mengel built her practice on early lessons and experiences she had with architecture. Surrounded from an early age by professionals within the fields of building and architecture, Kirstine formed a special...

IDOART.DK • 17th April 2019

CLAES OTTO JENNOW: FUTURISTIC DEPOSITORY

Claes Otto Jennow’s works invite at every glimpse a reconsideration of our relationship with the visual. His collage and retouching techniques bring new layers to otherwise recognisable images, emphasising notions of authorship, memory, and visual...

PETRIe • 1st March 2019

The Silent Shattering of Pristine Illusions - An interview with Magnus Gjoen —

“The relationship between what we see and what we know is never settled.” This quote from John Berger’s seminal book, “Ways of Seeing,” is appropriate when looking at Magnus Gjoen’s work. The juxtaposition of styles, techniques, and media doubles as a...

PETRIe • 6th February 2019

Optimism In Dark Tones: The Art of Stephanie Bell May —

The works of painter and sculptor Stephanie Bell May stand out through a unique take on abstraction, an evocative colour spectrum, and traces of political stance. Born and raised in Mexico, Stephanie later moved to the US, where she obtained a...

PETRIe • 1st February 2019

To Have, To Hold, To Give Away: The Art of Simon Freund —

Conceptual artist and photographer Simon Freund has built an impressive portfolio brimming with distinct world-remaking intentions. His photographs and installations have a neat, sculptural quality, retaining traces of original functions of the...

PETRIe • 16th January 2019

The Hole in the Wall —

With ‘The Hole in the Wall – Sensory Exhibition’, currently held at Brandts Gallery in Denmark, Boesen reaches inside her two-dimensional work to grab a handful of elements, which are then arranged in three-dimensional form. The artist employs a...

PETRIe • 16th January 2019

The Revenant – Human Nature at the Edge of Darkness —

Iñárritu paints a corner in a larger picture of invasion, depicting the frontier from the perspective of a few men and of how they make sense of their world: the frontier marks the border with the foreign they must conquer, the savage they must...

PETRIe • 16th January 2019

Boycott in One Act —

Ai Weiwei makes the best of what art as an institution has to offer, using the medium to influence social structures and challenge conventions. Through aesthetic engagement, the artist reinforces and expands the power of political dissidence, becoming...

PETRIe • 14th January 2019

Her – Literary Liquidity —

Her (2013) is the American comedy-drama written, directed and produced by Spike Jonze, and it tells the story of Theodore, a soon-to-be divorced ghost letter-writer who purchases, and consequently falls in love with, an Artificial Intelligence...

PETRIe • 26th December 2018

In Conversation with Othello De’Souza Hartley —

London-based visual artist Othello De’Souza-Hartley makes necessary art: the kind that moves the spirit and incites the mind, and never quite leaves you the same as it found you. His photography and video projects are weaved together with strong...

PETRIe • 26th December 2018

Experiences of the Unreal: Post-Photographic Photography —

Material, virtual, augmented, non-existent – reality forces itself into our visual spectrum with the energy of an unstoppable force. We can’t avoid having reality filtered for us, condensed and summarized, in the name of speed, efficiency, and...

PETRIe • 16th December 2018

An Interview with Stefano Rauzi —

The honesty of this playful aesthetics is kept in his work with collage, a technique which allows him to explore vast frames of meaning, beyond the fragmentary nature of this method. His collages threaten to interrupt organic narratives of the world...