Hybridation-DSN-3 (2022) Textile Art by Andreea Talpeanu

Andreea Talpeanu, born in 1982, lives and works in Paris. Growing up in Romania in the 1980s and then being confronted with wild capitalism after the revolution has led the artist to an unconventional type of expression. Her work involves sculptures, paintings, installations and drawings, and her current research focuses on the notion of connection, of syncretism between different parts of the contemporary system. The use of thread plays an important role in her creation: it is a mode of expression from ancient times, used deliberately to describe the incessant mutations and hyper-reactivity of the current world.

This weaving gesture of the artist — falsely innocuous — expression of his confrontation with the world, turns out to be a way of constituting a whole, a true political statement regarding the waste that modernity produces. The objects used in his sculptures are the organs of a body that metabolize both our natural, libidinal, impulsive and consumerist aspect, as well as the hyper surgical transformation and types of submission to suspect authoritarian structures. These obsolete objects are both the relics of a dead society and the structure of our current social mutation. The body, in the acceptance of the "whole", is only the fruit of paradoxical fusions, which takes on meaning under a slow temporality: sewing.

Although the artist was influenced by Arte Povera, Abstract Expressionism and Dada, she aims to educate hypermodernism in art and sculpts the contours of this new movement. Her works represent both a critique and a revaluation of modernism, at the same time as they decline two other particularities of hypermodernism: recycling and syncretism. Deeply rooted in the questioning of the current world, the artist, like a columnist but with a lot of poetry, uses and incorporates obsolete objects to create new bodies and materials. Recycling being one of the most important prerogatives of the new march of the world, Andreea Talpeanu adapts to this new philosophy of life to better connect disciplines, ideas, segments of the contemporary

• Nationality: ROMANIA
• Date of birth : 1982
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Romanian Contemporary Artists