Ioana Marinescu
Ioana Marinescu studied architecture in Bucharest and London. In her artistic practice Ioana works with large photographs in public spaces, with projections and live actions. She has recently completed a PhD by practice at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, on the activation of archival imagery in urban contexts and through the body. Her work was presented at the Architectural Association, RIBA and Beaconsfield in London, at Cité du patrimoine et de l’architecture in Paris, at Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna, Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel and Helsinki Contemporary. Ioana taught photography and architecture at Kingston University and Greenwich University and gave numerous lectures and workshops.
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Gravid
2018, 2 photographs (470 x 470 cm each) printed on canvas with scaffold structure and water canisters, Slade Graduate Summer Show, University College London (UCL)
Gravid is a site-specific installation made for the 19th century UCL Portico in London. It connects memories of birth at the UCL hospital to the many cupolas surrounding the university courtyard. Two black and white images of a pregnant abdomen (a plan and an elevation), placed behind the monumental columns of the university portico transform their architectural and academic setting. Gravid activates a personal memory, turning it into a collective experience. Scaled up and abstracted, the photographs of the pregnant female body become open to multiple readings. In 2019, during the Coventry Biennial ‘The Twin’, Gravid Plan and Gravid Elevation were hung in the covered court of the Herbert Gallery.
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gravid adj. & n. (from lat. gravidus)
pregnant, heavy with child
rich, abundant, weighed down
gravity n. (from lat. gravis)
weight, heaviness
dignity, seriousness, thoughtfulness
grave adj.
important, serious
tomb, burial ground
to engrave, to dig up
