Anca Poterașu Gallery opens its exhibition agenda with The Internexus of (Living) Things. At the Edge of the Object, Toward the Limits of the Human, a project dedicated to emerging artistic practices and explorations in the field of new media. Curated by Lorena Marciuc, the exhibition brings together Andrei Botnaru, Cătălin Marinescu, Radu Marțin, and Marian Mina Mihai—artists who investigate the relationships between object, technology, and human presence. Through interactive works and experimental processes, the project proposes a reflection on the boundaries between the living and the artificial, the material and the immaterial.
The opening will take place on Thursday, January 22, 2026, at 6:00 PM, at Anca Poterașu Gallery (26 Popa Soare Street, Bucharest). The event begins at 5:00 PM with a discussion in which the exhibiting artists—PhD candidates at the “George Enescu” National University of Arts in Iași—will address the themes and directions of their new media practices.
“The exhibition experiment Internet of (Living) Things. At the Boundary of the Object, Toward the Edge of the Human [Io(L)T], situated—using the language of quantum physics—in a state of superposition, where the curator relinquishes the role of observer, paradoxically simulates a set of non-observational positions. Through new media installations and conceptual compositions, it creates the conditions for imagining a totality and for overlooking ‘distances of meaning’—understood as collapses of relationality that give way to the impersonal in exchange for engaging in a process of affective archaeology.
Between the preset of a distanced gaze and the assumption of the wave function’s presence within the exercise of exhibition production, the works by Andrei Botnaru, Cătălin Marinescu, Radu Marțin, and Marian Mina Mihai construct laboratory-like situations that become instruments for perceptual, conceptual, and affective probing of the limits of a reality in which the human entity transforms into either a disruptive factor or a catalyst in interaction with other bodies, translating invisible data into sensitive cartographies. By surpassing the boundaries between object and subject through installations that encourage contact, reaction, and the displacement of everyday order, Io(L)T also hybridizes the exhibition space with that of the bazaar, the playground, the garden, and the forest, inviting visitors to reconsider their encounter with materiality and the specificity of objects as a discontinuous flow of re-signification.” Lorena Marciuc
The exhibition is open from January 22 to February 5, 2026.
