focAR group / Alina Tudor and Razvan Neagoe
Alina Tudor and Razvan Neagoe have worked together ever since 2006. They mainly use installations as a means of artistic expression, combining actions, video, photography, filmed performances and objects. They pay special attention to the exhibition space which, for the majority of their projects, is included in the installation may it be container, apartment, phone both or art gallery. Their artistic endeavors maintain within the social and political sphere and each project is a synthesis of a certain period of time.
Alina and Razvan have been involved in various cultural, educational or art residence programs such as City Switch (2011 France), Artistic Mobility and trans-Mediterranean Cooperation (2011 France), I Love Bucharest (2006-2009 – Bucharest). Among their most recent exhibitions the following can be mentioned: About life, houses, people and others… event parallel at the Bucharest Biennial 2012; Je passé / J’habite /Je vis (Lyon, 2011); the Photography Biennial Erosion (Lithuania 2010); The Travellers Box Project (London 2010); 23rd Festival Les Instants Vidéo (Marseille 2010); MOnuMENTS (UNA Galeria 2010). They are also involved in various actions on the theme of City vs. Nature and Society vs. Politics such as “Watch the bear…” (artistic intervention within Protest in the Wind – the Oberliht Association, Moldova 2011), “Agenda”(2009), Red Spot (2008), “EXIST”- Phone Box(2007), stART Dambovita (2007).
2012 / parallel event at Bucharest Biennale 5
About Houses, life and others…
From a biological and social perspective, man is a permanent consumer of goods, services and information. In order to live, he must satisfy various needs that involve the consumption of related goods. Nature provides some necessary elements, but human beings must take them, modify and adapt them for consumption. These changes lay the foundations of production and arise from the need of individuals to satisfy their needs.
2011 / Résonance at the Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon France
Je passé / J’habite /Je vis.
Starting from the idea that every place is defined by the people who live there, we are now faced with a mixture of nationalities and races which is helped by the tourism to increase its diversity. So that man become beset by men. From the outside. Coming and leaving. Flurry, order and disorder.
Then architecture–city and urban–city too.
start in 2007 – Ongoing Project
MOnuMENTS
MOnuMENTS is an artistic project, which proposes a cultural and social reflection; MOnuMENTS decomposes and realizes a map of public monuments from Romania in several stages, questioning a dialogue between rural and urban spaces, between mentalities form different parts of the country. MOnuMENTS present the moment when the monument was erected and the moment when we documented.
Urban project (2007 – 2009)
Urban Traces
IDENTITY – not of nationality, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, community, area or any other kind, but an URBAN identity, an identity created by the urban society that determines us, given by the colorful monochrome of every day and every night of the cities in which we are born, raised, live, work, a borrowed, non-personal, impersonal identity. A “non-identity” identity, imprinted by every detail of urban life, from the block of flats, the store, the supermarket, the related mall to the politics and culture of the city, through its specific means of behavior and communication.
Red Spot (2007 – 2008)
Red Spot / a project to save historic buildings in ruins
RED SPOT is a call to overcome ignorance of our own history, of our own past and present, to overcome indifference to our own future.
Phone Box – EXIST/focAR/Urban Traces
Telephone Booth
Installation, telephone action between Bucharest – Iasi – Chisinau. Conversations about the public telephone urban accessory. Useful or useless?
Underground
Steps to identity
Greenwich passage reveals itself as a corridor animated by the human crowds, a hallway loaded with different silhouettes, some in a hurry, some relaxed, but all and each one of them adding to the identity imprint of this place with every step laid here. The installation will be displaying a projection of lights through cut out silhouettes. A linear movement of the device which projects the light from left to right will be seen by the visitors as a movement of the cut-out characters.
216 project
“216” is a personal project of a documentary, artistic, cultural and social structure. 216 represent the number of pregnancy days – from the moment one finds out the great news until the actual birth; and 2008 is obviously the year these days have been spent in.
216 is a photo and video project, which allows us to rediscover ourselves as individuals, through the art of drawing. We have attempted to change the relationship with the everyday, the commonplace, and the usual. The belly has become a social place where we question the urban and rural identity through the lens of a new experience, the experience of preparing for a new life, which in turn triggers a new attitude. We express our thoughts, confusions and feelings encountered during this period regarding the society, the politics, the natural disasters, the global warming, the start of the financial meltdown worldwide, the current situation of art in today’s society, the supermarket, the shopping mall, with the tarmac, the concrete, the grass, the tree, the park, the boulevard, the streets and so on. This way I have auto-invited myself to getting involved, to make a stand, to have an attitude, to make a social and cultural gesture in the same time.
