The kite installation “On the Same Line,” designed by the artist Lucia Ghegu, was presented two weeks ago in 5 locations in Constanta.
The work consisted of an installation of paper kites tied to a wooden frame, made by hand and placed in squares or pedestrian streets. Passers-by were invited to take a kite and fly it.
The main point of the installation’s launch was on the seafront in Rotterdam Park in Constanta. Other kites were installed at the Southern Dike, the Northern Dike, Faleza Casino, and Strada Termele Romane.
Lucia Ghegu’s project is inspired by a previous gesture during the pandemic. During the 2020 lockdown, the artist flew a kite from her apartment window to reach her neighbors.
A poetic and powerful gesture that serves as a symbolic reminder of freedom and our fragile human relationships beyond physical distance.
For the “On the Same Line” project, Lucia Ghegu appropriates her gesture and reproduces it in Constanța. This shift from private to public is a crucial element of the project because it not only reflects the period that strongly affected the emotional and physical exchange between people but directly brings them back together.
“On the Same Line” is the third work in the Art in Public Space component of the Accelerator program. Mentoring and production for emerging artists. This stage includes six works made individually or in groups by the selected emerging artists.
The six art projects in the public space of the Accelerator program are solidified in the concept “The Artist, the Work and Everyone Who Comes to It” created by Tevž Logar, the curator of the group exhibition, which took place between February and May 2023, at Gaep gallery from Bucharest. The exhibit is now available to the public online.
The first two artworks in the public space of the Accelerator were: “The Library for Public Games” – online activation presented by Maria Mandea (June 25) and “Full of Merit, yet Poetical / Auto-destructive Traces,” performance- Ana Maria Szöllösi held in Timișoara (July 14).
After the installation “On the Same Line,” presented by Lucia Ghegu in Constanța, followed in Bucharest, Roberta Curcă with the artistic intervention “Full of Merit, yet Poetical / Auto-destructive Traces.”
The following exposures in public space:
– Bucharest, August 17, Andrei Arion and Delia A. Prodan, “Lose a Step”
– Cluj-Napoca, August 25, Lucia Ghegu, “Full of Merit, yet Poetical / Auto-destructive Traces”
– Oltenita, September 3, Alina Ion, “Treads of Solitude”
– Bucharest, September 5 (on-site), Maria Mandea, “The Library for Public Games”
– Pitesti, September 7, Stanca Soare, “Full of Merit, yet Poetical / Auto-destructive Traces”
– Cluj-Napoca, September 11–17, Stanca Soare & Larisa Petcut, “Joint Lines”
After studying engineering, graphics, and industrial design, Lucia Ghegu obtained a research grant at the Accademia di Romania in Rome (2018-2020), during which she developed an artistic project on the impact of post-communist migration on Romanians living in Italy.
In her recent works, which include both large-scale drawings, light installations, as well as objects on the border between sculpture and product design, she is interested in architectural space, mobility understood as fluidity, migration, community, identity, a constant tension between expectations and reality, but also the aesthetics of the image.
Lucia frequently chooses drawing as a solution, contrary to the hyper-technological trend, as a quick and spontaneous note that mediates the transition from idea to object and documents the process.
