Re-collection

Alexandra Pirici (RO, 1982, based in Bucharest) is an artist who uses choreography both for its economy of means and for its critical energy, as a means of questioning history, monuments and public memory.

Re-collection is an ongoing, performative action, built around the notion of collecting, while subverting traditional understandings of the term. Real and fictional objects – works of art and forms of life – are transformed into embodied memories. Objects become movements, unlabelled, with no need for classification. The boundaries between these new objects – actions / gestures / moving sculptural forms – are porous and less defined such that we never quite know where each “object” begins and ends.