Imaginary Biographical Dialogues and Bifurcated Narratives

Sometimes, much of contemporary life is wrapped in the poetry of melancholy, loneliness, and absurdity. My work does not aim to document reality but to distort, subvert, and reimagine it—echoing my impulses, desires, and thoughts while amplifying these inherent contradictions. As an artist I am interested in choices: what remains to be seen, what is absent and how decisions are made.

Imaginary Biographical Dialogues and Bifurcated Narratives is an ongoing series shaped by my recent trip to Romania, my birth country, where I experienced the unsettling dissonance between past and present, a feeling many immigrants know intimately. The familiar landscapes of my childhood felt both preserved and unrecognizable, caught in the flux of cultural transformation. This series unpacks that tension, reflecting on Romania’s evolving identity and the shifting relationship between memory, place, and belonging.

I weave together art historical references, Romanian folklore, and abstract architectural diagrams, constructing layered, non-linear “collages” that explore the concept of a new social utopia. By merging the structured with the organic, the historical with the speculative, I question how tradition survives, adapts, or dissolves in the face of westernization. The work is visually dense, capturing the interplay between nostalgia and progress, permanence and erasure. It blurs the boundaries between past and future, reality and imagination—creating a space where the fragmented echoes of history coalesce into something both deeply personal and universally resonant.