Lavinia Munteanu
Lavinia Munteanu
Within [their] artistic research practice, [they are] interested in the question whether exploring the unconscious as related to space might enable us to a more differentiated perception of ourselves. The idea of unlimited progress is characteristic of the present (Western) society and is related to a certain representation of linear time and Euclidian space. The development of different techniques and technologies has implied an expansion of human boundaries. But can [one] still follow this thinking today at the cost of nature and of other parts of the world? What if scientific and technical progress are neither the instrument for further development nor the solution to the problems this progress has generated? [They] believe that new paradigms beyond the abusive use of nature and of the human (female) body are urgently needed, paradigms that art can contribute to. Artistic creation can contribute to overcoming the artificial gap between human culture and nature. In [their] artistic research projects, [they] address the relationship between human beings and inanimate objects and plead for social interaction with non-human actors. It is in the context of feminism, post-humanism and post-scientism that [they] place [their] practice. [Their] recent work (like "Mandragora“ 2023) being inspired by the new-materialism philosophy of philosophers like Rosi Braidotti and Jane Bennett.