Style: "Neutral"

Andra Ursuța

(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.