2023: Corps Orbite
Grotto Gallery, Bucharest
9 December 2023 – 12 January 2024
Vlad Nancă proposes a new series of works that continue his older interests and working methods, such as the colonization of space and research of 20th century architectural archives. His work is positioned at the intersection of contemporary and decorative art languages. Two sculptures with an aura of functionality become portals to a possible colonised planet, where architectural modernism is given a new chance.
Posthuman figures derived from scale models in architectural sketches from the 1990s recall the legend of human sacrifice in construction and at the same time place us at into the future an uncertain distance from the present.
Thus, Grotto becomes a diorama through which the artist encourages a re-evaluation of our relationship to the planet, ecosystems and the built environment, reflecting the teachings of modernism in light of the current climate emergency. The suggestion of relocation to a new cosmic context expresses, in reality, a desire to give our planet a new chance.
[The title of the exhibition is a line borrowed from Ilse Garrnier’s 1979 concrete poem “Blason du corps féminin”]
