"Wild Card" by Giulia Crețulescu
Show Dates: October 31 — November 23, 2024
Giulia Crețulescu's interdisciplinary approach materializes into hybrid objects that aim to deconstruct their identity until it dissolves into a foreign body, stripped of any immediate function, and thus becoming purely disruptive entities requiring a new identity. The works created for "Wild Card" explore the fusion between human and object, both from the perspective of the transhumanist model—where physical and mental capacities are expanded through external entities that enhance and mitigate vulnerabilities—and by studying the ergonomics of objects in relation to the human body as indices of sensory perception.
The objects created by the artist also address the body, alluding to an alchemical transfer of properties, forming a correspondence between human and non-human agents, of becoming body and becoming machinic, of being worked out. Beyond their normative use, they emerge as objects of fetish and totemic reverence. Additionally, the different immersions of objects are examined more deeply in the artist's Ph.D. research, which focuses on the communicational acts these objects permit.
Giulia Crețulescu (b. 1994, Craiova, Romania) graduated from the National University of Arts Bucharest. Her works have been exhibited in institutions, art spaces, and galleries such as The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Ivan Gallery, and CAV Gallery in Bucharest; Pickle Bar Slavs and Tatars in Berlin; and EastContemporary Gallery in Milan, among others. Her works are also part of the permanent collection of The National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest.
