Giulia Crețulescu

Giulia Crețulescu is a graduate of the Graphics Department of the National University of Arts, Bucharest. Exploring other fields, such as geology, physics, chemistry, or architecture, is one of her ways of working. She is interested in the contrasts between rational/intuitive, natural/artificial, or objective/subjective. Her interdisciplinary approach has materialized into hybrid objects that aim to deconstruct themselves until their identity is dissolved into a new foreign body, deprived of any primary function. These new entities become disruptive and must be placed in a new identity. The artist’s interest in an object’s liminal, trans-categorical character stems from the desire to give the artistic object an uncertain status. This, in turn, forces the viewer to come up with a series of possible ontologies in which to develop. Giulia Crețulescu’s works discuss the fusion between man and object, both from the perspective of the transhumanist model, which involves the expansion of physical and mental capacities through objective entities that supplement and increase their potential vulnerabilities and by studying the ergonomics of the object, which involves its analysis of the human body as indices of sensory perception.

Giulia Crețulescu, Membrane – auxiliary hand, 2019, approx. 18 x 10 cm, photo credit: Aici Acolo Collective;