She sais that what inspires her work are the daily life experiences and ideas from the books she reads. The artists she admires are Anselm Kiefer, George Baselitz and Antoni Tapies. Her practice is based on the instinct. One of her most important projects is ANTHROPOSCAPES, a solo exhibition presented in apARTe Gallery, Iași, curated by Cătălin Gheorghe.

This was a project produced by Vector Studio in partnership with Asociația Culturală AltIași and UNAGE as part of Carte Blanche aux Jeunes Créateurs programme financially supported by Institut Français in Iaşi. 

ANTHROPOSCAPES, a series of post-pictorial artworks, highlights the alterations of the world's ecosystems through noxious man-made intervention imply a critical moment in geological history: the acceleration of the Anthropocene. “Beyond the politicization of recognizing or ignoring climate change, there could be identified with precision and emotion the degenerations of the environment caused by the impact of agricultural industrialization, the chaotic development of urbanization, the greenhouse effect, the acidification of the oceans, the effects of deforestation, the deterioration of biodiversity or even the extinction of biomasses from the spheres of plants or animal species. The consequences of the structural rapacity of the global economic system are felt in the accelerating changes in the biosphere, in changing weather processes and seasons cycles, in radioactive pollution”, points out the curator. 

In recent years, actions were taken into the direction of an ecological turn in art that highlights the eco-social role that artistic practice might have in denouncing the effects of global capitalism and creating conditions for awareness of the need for an ecological ethics with immediate effects on rebuilding the deteriorated relationship between social life and the natural world. At the same time, one of the radical questions of contemporaneity is whether the material production of art would not in its turn contribute to the degradation of ecological desideratum.

Negotiating the meanings of ecological activism and of the neomaterialist movement, Berta Maria Moldoveanu realizes a series of post-pictorial artworks in which the abstract and informal representations of the geological stratigraphy interferes with the immersive theatricality of the exhibitional installation. In the production of her works, she uses, literally and metaphorically, both natural and artificially created materials, from river stones, dust and fragments of marble, sawdust, linseed oil, sand, hemp and coal, to acrylic liquid (monomer), glue, pitch, adhesives and oxide pigments. The works strengthens the reflection on the critical topic of Anthropocene, being presented as a poetic periodic table of the elements of artistic intention to produce a re-cognition of the conditions of relational survival in the biospheric ecosystem”, highlights Cătălin Gheorghe in his curatorial statement. 

In the following rows I’ll do short presentations on some of the art installations from BIOS exhibition. The first is “Filtered”, a digital triptych by Matei Băcanu, a 3D artist with a background in architecture. His project talks about the human impact on the natural environment. “As human impact on the environment grows, so does the risk of imbalance. Healthy, sustainable and direct connections to nature become more and more a thing of privilege. Filtered brings forward the ways in which we bias and filter information…”, claims the artist. 

Other project is „Save our planet” by Adrian Tabacaru. „More than 8.7 milion eukaryotic species inhabit our planet. This tiny sphere is imbued with life everywhere you look. But if you think this diversity is in a perfect balance, think again. If you summarize the entire Earth’s lifespan into 24h, you will find that the Anthropocene era is here for no more than 3 seconds. Humans made all this mess in just 3 seconds”, sais the artist. 

„Spot”, an artistic project by Răzvan Pascu, is about life, time and polution. „Life takes time, needs conditions, life evolves. It took garbage more than 100 years to take over the planet and more than 100 years of oil exploitation before that. After 2 centuries our garbage is alive and growing”, sais Răzvan. „MeetGO” by Dan Adrian Ionescu challenges today’s individuals to face themselves, by means of raising awareness of the Anthropocene’s effects.

„Techno angst” quadriptych by Dorin Cucicov addresses the field of artificial life in context of the anthropocene. The four modules construct a fictional Universe based on real facts. „Are the humans the ones in full control?”