ANA DUŢIA

Tuesday 29 January 2013

Si

Either on road signs, gates, walls, on the road or on other surfaces, the warning signs allways forbid something and contain words like "no" and "forbidden". You almost can`t find any positive signs, optimistic in a certain way, that encourage you to do something.
The project "Yes" was about adding the written permision, next to the interdiction located on a rock on El Confital beach, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Written at the same hight with the same colours, Yes and No together, are now confusing for whoever is seeing them and asks himself which one to follow. Of course, with no other specification next to them, about what is permitted and what is allowed, the imagination of the viewer can be very vaste.

Before

After

El Confital, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Spray on rock, January 2013

Photo, courtesy of the artist

Nuestro equipo vencera!

In 2003, Estadio Insular, the stadium of Union Deportiva de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, was used for the last time, after 54 years of activity. Ever since, Estadio Insular had been repeatedly vandalized. Everything that used to be furniture, windows, tribunes, panels, had been destroyed. Most of the chairs had been removed. "Nuestro equipo vencera!" is about writing the local teams hymn on the chairs that are still in the tribune. One letter on each chair, like silent supporters, cheering it`s team on the long forgotten stadium.
What is really amazing is the fact that the text of the hymn, written one letter on each chair, fits exactly with the number of chairs left standing in the tribune...

"Nuestro equipo vencera!" acrylic on plastic, Estadio Insular, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, January 2013
Photo, courtesy of the artist

Nails

One thing you cannot skip seeing when walking on the street in almost any Latin American village, are the knitting women, walking around, covered in the handmade things they make and sell. What you don`t see very often is how these women actually create their stuff.
One day, on the way back home, in a mexican village, I ran into a couple of women, sitting on the sidewalk, next to a wooden, electricity pole, with a nail in it, useing that nail for knitting. For a lot of people that nail was so unimportant that it passed completely unoticed. For the knitting women, on the other hand, it was an extremely important detail, that helped them go on with their work.
Within my project, every wooden pole on Diego de Masariegos, San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico got one nail. Most likely, the 12 nails added were never noticed by passers-by, as the original nail, used by the knitting women.
Since the project was both about the women, but most of all, for them, I can only wonder if the knitting women noticed and used the nails I added.

"Nails", Photo on wood, San Cristobal de Las Casas, Mexico, May 2012

Saturday 21 January 2012

I`ll be right back

Galeria Europa, str. Muresenilor nr. 1, Brasov

1-15 noiembrie 2011

BEFORE

AFTER

Tuesday 18 October 2011

Love Street

Street sign mounted on "the dark side" of Istedgade, Copenhagen, one of the most famous streets in the city, a mix of hipster venues, fancy restaurants and a red light district.

September 2011

"Love Street", polyethylene beads, 15 x 45 cm, 2011

Photo, courtesy of the artist. 2011

Sunday 4 September 2011

Artificial Rainbow

"Thursday morning, August 18^th 2011, a rainbow appeared in Copenhagen. And not on the sky, as it might be expected, but on the sunny bike road on Norrebro bridge. Seven colors were aligned and ready to be biked over. In just a few minutes the colors were spread along the bridge and bikers would leave the “crime scene” with their tires painted red, yellow, green etc. As various as their bikes, people’s reactions were interesting to observe: the anger in one man’s eyes since his perfect new racing bike was now “spoiled”, the curiosity of some that stopped to take pictures, the indifference with which most people passed by the colored lane, caught in their daily routine on their way to work.

Just as a real rainbow this one lasted just for half an hour, until someone made a call and the dazzled, bored fire brigade came to wash it away. Isn’t it funny how they were trying to wash with water a thing that in it’s origins exists because of the water?"

Photo courtesy of the artist. 2011

Friday 13 August 2010

Diario de Mexico

"Diario de Mexico". instalation. clothing and barbed wire. 10 m. 2010

Tuesday 10 August 2010

Luci in Italia

On the mirror in via Battindarno 376, that reflected my image for five months, I’ve put three light bulbs in the colors of the Romanian flag, blue, yellow and red. The mirror has then been moved in seven locations in Bologna, Italy, where Romanians lived or were present, including an orthodox church.

"Luci in Italia". transparent sticker on mirror. (7 x ) 20 x 30 cm. 2010

16 January 2009 - 00:00 GMT

As we can only be aware of our own reality, there are a lot of parallel realities formed. These photographs, taken in the same moment predetermined, bring together the realities of their authors in different locations on the globe. 47 participants contacted through internet. The viewer is the only one capable of an overview, the authors themselves not being aware of the others.

"16 January 2009 - 00:00 GMT". Foto instalation. 12 x 3m. 2010

Saturday 7 August 2010

Autostop

The project is both about the personal experience of hitchhiking and meeting an RFI reporter who told me of an article about the Ceausescu couple. It appears that they hitchhiked during their run from Bucharest in `89, for 23 minutes. I went in the exact same place and hitchhiked for 23 min. The people who stopped received a paper with the explanation.

http://vimeo.com/13921449