”A Nostril Plows The Wet Ground”| Solo show Ana Petrovici-Popescu at Atelier 35.

The solo exhibition of Ana Petrovici-Popescu – “A Nostril Plows The Wet Ground” – curated by Georgia Țidorescu, is on view at Atelier 35 until December 15.

“Humans are a cluster of flesh, blood, and mucus that we aim to polish until the end of our time. We develop every bit of energy through our body’s capacities and we learn to understand them along the way, as well as finding the best use for it. Our function in the world is dictated by the state towards which we guide our attention and what preoccupies our mind.
In our lifetime we collect different kinds of drops, which over time accumulate years of memories and precarities. We collect saliva, tears, blood, and rain, and each of those carries a moment stuck with us forever, even if our mind and body reject it. Observing the intimate flows of the human core, the works are transformed into erotic poetry, exploring the individual from a private viewpoint. Turning to covet into shapes metamorphosizes the lust into palpable reality, turning the waves of the body into fluid objects. The accumulation of memories and fluids dies with us and not a single person will even encounter the same liquids and we did not understand the recollections we had.” (curatorial text)

Ana Petrovici-Popescu (b.1986) lives in Bucharest. She studied visual arts at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, where she obtained her bachelor’s degree in painting, master’s degree in sculpture, and doctorate in visual arts. She is interested in new mediums and areas of knowledge to transform the poetry of a sensation into a visual container. She addresses the spectrality of the concept of the Other, sexuality, skin as a writing sheet of the subconscious and society, recent history, and gender inequality.

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