
La Brique, The Brick, Cărămida
14.02.201928.04.2019
La Brique, The Brick, Cărămida, curated by Ami Barak, brings forward a dynamic and creative artistic scene, from the beginning of the XXth century until now.
(b. 1979)
Currently lives in New York. Her sculptures and installations mostly adapt dramatic subjects from international news, while also taking up autobiographical details – everyday events, elements of national and Eastern European identity. The artist exploits the voluptuousness and vulnerability of the body in a contemporaneity dominated by aggressiveness.
Andra Ursuța takes up the Romanian flag as a distorted icon, with its shreds of torn fabric the flag becomes like a punk, underground element. This unpatriotic flag, a sarcastic patchwork with poignant anti-nationalist symbolism is in fact a reappropriation.