In a poetic, sometimes self-deprecating tone, Anca Adina Cojocaru (b. 1981) explores themes such as alienation, transfiguration, and levitation. She works with clay, wood, metal, textiles, and organic materials with the intention of reflecting the abundance of the natural and human worlds, the uncontrollable chaos, and the ineffable messages hidden beneath the first image we see. The resulting objects are experiments that have survived the process—documented through photography or video—having passed through earth, fire, and water. The works feature a layer of text—a clue or a digression—that is inseparable from the meaning of the whole.

Currently, she is working on small-scale clay sculptures that are filmed as they are consumed by fire.