My writings are conceptual methods to engage in political reflections and geopolitical preoccupations: pursuing urgent theoretical investigations on critical theory, language, and ontology in relation to photography in our post-technical age. My artistic publications are constantly being handmade, self-published, illustrated, and sometimes exhibited in Haus der Kunst or in self-conceptualized exhibitions. Importantly, my artistic practice steadily confronts languages of identity in order to transcend its categorizations of fundamentality and to occupy in-between states, the crossing places where art and logic become metamorphosis. Furthermore, my artistic practice expresses itself prominently through writing, and hand-making books on non-traditional materials such as butter paper, shoe soles, and photographic emulsion lifts. I work with an emphasis on site-specificity and seek to reveal the paradoxes of language and representation, and in so doing, to navigate and transcend beyond medium and into self-reflection and attunement. I work in code, vector graphics, interactive installations and 3D virtual models, new media, and sound. I am primarily interested in the intersection of post-technology and art, exposing the thresholds and tensions between the idea and its material implementation(s).
Born in Romania in 2002, I immigrated to French & English-speaking southwestern Ontario, Canada at the age of 4 following a family tragedy. Growing up in London, Canada, with an eagerness to exchange and digress my poetics of dislocation and peculiar ontological investigations - I quickly found the epistemological outlet in the critical and theoretical sphere of art and philosophy. At 15, I began training and working professionally in the Canadian art industry as a writer and curator for the contemporary art magazine, Centered.ca, (*2017 in London) Museum London (*2017 in London), and DNA Artspace (*2018 in London). Simultaneously conceptually studying fine art painting and photography at the BealArt institution and Fanshawe College. At 19, I initiated, curated, and wrote the publication of the large-scale exhibition, To be an Angular Something as a Round Nothing, on the intrinsic inauthenticity, between the Nuremberg and Munich Academies, as well as became a founding member of the international artist collective Bricking Through and taking over the Jour Fixe artist talk series. Last month, two weeks ago became the youngest prize-winner to hold the Max-Ernst Stipendium and a recipient of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Folkes. I continue to realize performances and collective space-related exhibitions daily, using the photograph as an attunement for research.
Currently, I am working together with a nuclear physicist and friend from Canada, experimenting with audio/visual sound mapping using electronic synthesizers and field recordings of our extensive travels through eastern Europe. (with an emphasis on Romania.) We plan to create an experimental publication and website archive of our work and are also shooting a film on 16mm which we will then manifest as a dual over-lapping experience with the sound. Our emphasis is on recording the interdisciplinary affects the sound and video have on each other, and the way in which this Relation can and cannot be recorded. The ‘Sound - Publication’ is the key component of this project.
C.V.
Born 2002, Târgu Mureș, Româniailinca.fechete@gmail.com+49 163 874 9021
LANGUAGESEnglish, French, German, Romanian
EDUCATION2021 Salzburg International Academy of Fine Art2020 - NOW Academy of Fine Art, Munich Germany2019 Bealart Diploma in Fine Art Painting and Photography, H.B Beal, London, Canada2019 Fine Art Apprenticeship Fanshawe College, London, Canada2018 Photography In the Space-Time Continuum, Diana Constantin, Tabără de Arte, Mureș, România
EXHIBITIONS2022 Karl & Faber Kunstpreis Exhibition, Karl & Faber Auktionshaus Munich, Germany2022 Rumours of Capture, Neu Workshop, Munich, Germany2022 Max Ernst Prize Exhibition, Max Ernst Museumn des LVR, Brühl, Germany2022 Eat The Cake And Have It Too, Milchstraße 4. Munich, Germany2022 Hi!a Film Festival, Munich, Germany2022 Super BOOKS. Haus der Kunst. Munich, Germany2022 University Future Festival, Artist and Speaker. Berlin, Germany.2021 To be a Round Nothing as an Angular Something. Academy of Fine Art, Munich, Germany2021 HTSSNASS:S Collection 2021, Hause der Kunst, Munich2021 Spatial Hijacks by Sculpture, Höhensalzburg Fortress, Salzburg, Austria2021 The Makable Mind, Noorderlicht International Photography Festival at The Hague2020 Equal Minds, Satellite Project Space, Artist of Excellence Award Exhibition London Ontario2020 Art After the End of my Reality, Wisdom Tea Shop, London, Ontario, Canada2021 In The Evening. Fotobus Society, A project sponsored by Nikon, Essen, Deutschland2019 Free for (W)all Graffiti Jam, Kyle Gripski, London, Canada2017 RBC Painting Competition Exhibition, Power Plant Gallery, Toronto, Canada
PUBLICATIONS2022 Poetics of E.ZG.04, Self Published, Critical Writings and Prose.2021 Poetics of Opacity, Super BOOKS, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany2021 To be an Angular Something as a Round Nothing exhibition publication, Munich, Germany2021 HTSSNASS:S Collection 2021, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany2019 Contributing writer and editor for the Regionalist Movement Project, Centered.ca, Canada
AWARDS AND GRANTS2022 Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes2022 Max Ernst Stipendium2021 Deutschlandstipendium, Alexander Tutsek Foundation, Munich, Germany2020 Templar Scholarship Award, BealArt Institution, Ontario, Canada
