Elena Stanciu

17th April 2019

Manifest Stafet - The Short Story of an Exhibition

The process of materialising the PDF files into exhibits was an interesting one, which took us through valuable moments of considering content and format, concept and object, heaviness of paper, best use of an immobile exhibition room, and further...

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 • 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...

PETRIe • 9th December 2018

Inhabiting Non-Places: The Photography of Malgorzata Wilarska —

Nomad´s Hotel is a visual rendition of isolated, undefined moments of despair; the uncanniness of recognising familiar domestic setting is doubled by a strange, unfriendly reality of being suspended in space and time. Wilarska makes the hotel room...

26th November 2018

PETRIe 68: Spaces of Impermanence. The New Liminality

This article was published in PETRIe 68: Not Your Savage, October 2017. The text is an analysis of the relationship between identity and space, with a focus on transient architecture. Imagery was sourced to illustrate this article from the works of...

PETRIe • 26th November 2018

A Farewell to Privacy: Life in a Post-Panopticon —

If control over one's own recorded presence is renounced in highly monitored public spaces, it would be safe to assume that resistance is manifested through those channels people have the power to control. Social media is one example of how the same...

PETRIe • 26th November 2018

The Transparent Subject: Of Selfhood and Space in the New Age of Migration —

In the asylum, refugees renounce their claim to privacy; nothing should be hidden, all should be transparent. Some might see this exile as a start of a new life, a chance to forget, be forgotten, and, in turn, integrate and be assimilated. This is,...

PETRIe • 26th November 2018

Not Exotic —

Curating non-Western art in a Western context, and for Western audiences seems to be, despite of the laudable collaboration with non-Western curators, a one-way street. Organised and sudden visibility of non-Western artists does little to build the...

PETRIe • 26th November 2018

The Ghetto – A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? —

Growing radicalisation of political views seems to inspire and to reinforce an equally radical attitude towards difference, experienced both at an interpersonal level, and a structural level. More clearly, the restrictive binary of centre – periphery...

PETRIe • 26th November 2018

Art in Rust and Glory —

Art spaces are rarely just that. Museums, galleries, and art halls are endowed with a certain kind of cultural significance, moving past the rather passive role of hosting artworks and events. Art buildings often undergo a process of spatial...

PETRIe • 26th November 2018

Working Bodies: An interview with Alexandra Pirici —

Bodies at work are disciplined bodies, normalised under the structure of various organisational contexts; these are bodies made docile, with prescribed movements and postures that fall within parameters of physical conformity. Placed in confined...

PETRIe • 26th November 2018

Hashtag Protest —

Digital platforms feed into the structural fragmentation and individualisation of societies today, paradoxically enhancing connectivity and mirroring the spatiality of protest: the public square is now the platform, and groups of activists are now...

PETRIe • 26th November 2018

Hot Dudes Reading: The Dark Side of Empowerment —

Hot Dudes Reading is an Instagram community ran for the simple cause of collecting photos of attractive men reading in public places, from anonymous contributors around the world. Over 270 photos have been already uploaded, for a following of nearly...

PETRIe • 26th November 2018

Of This or Another Time: Sarah Sze's Timekeeper —

Sarah Sze´s mixed-media work, Timekeeper, overwhelms the space it inhabits at Copenhagen Contemporary, despite it being a desk-size installation in the middle of an impressive exhibition hall. Sound, still and moving image, and found objects place the...

PETRIe • 23rd November 2018

Revival of Community: the European Culture Festival as a Genre of Resistance —

Culture, music, and art festivals reflect a society´s celebration of things essentially ephemeral, yet with a temporarily tangible dimension. Innovation, excellence, abundance, a sense of community, openness – they are all valued and made manifest...

PETRIe • 23rd November 2018

Erasure is Temporary: Art from Conflict Areas —

Even when artists and practitioners do not form a collective, the impact of creative activism and socially-engaged art is not dimmed. Libyan street art, for instance, played an important role on the streets of Tripoli, during the revolution, and its...

PETRIe • 23rd November 2018

Visualising the Impermanent —

In the context of growing anxieties over social and political fragmentation and ecological collapse, humanity tends towards expressions and explorations of permanence seen as escape; perpetuity as salvation; the everlasting as a comfortable haven. But...

PETRIe • 22nd November 2018

Rising Waters and Human Rights. Architecture as Activism —

The concept of architecture as a human right is used by Emergency Architecture and Human Rights, an organisation that “works and builds for socially vulnerable communities around the globe that face inequality, humanitarian crisis and violation of...

PETRIe • 22nd November 2018

Spatial Violence: Architecture of the Absurd —

The intense relationship people may have with space and place is being replaced by an intense struggle to validate one’s own claim to a slice of land. Spatial intensity becomes spatial violence – symbolic, invisible aggression against space, which are...

Analize Journal of Gender and Feminist Studies • 1st October 2014

Urban Space and Queer Identities: The LGBTQ Film Festival as Heterotopia

Urban space is interpretation – of values, of moods and desires, image and projection of what it has been and what is to become. Urban space is as fluid as time, flowing between compact structures of concrete and steel, glass and mirrors; a “liquid”...