Floating Anchor

Triptych metal structure composed of three rectangles of 65x150cm
supporting a special mirror coated PVC curtain
with sewed interventions made by the artist, 186 x 150 cm

The only anchor I hold onto is my body. In the walks around my house, in the clothes I keep changing, in the dreams where I fly or drown, there’s only one POV, one locus. My body. The relation of the body to this object built to cover it while it gets dressed up or down if in domestic spaces, or when it gets treated in hospitals, is older than this object and older than this body of mine. The triptych too is holding onto my body, and not the other way around.

The Floating Anchor is many things – a dressing screen, an interrogation one-way mirror, a heuristic map of the places where the body behind it goes after it gets dressed up. In the exhibition room, the Floating Anchor reclaims a space behind where there is no other work and no other people, a space where the body disappears from the sight of others allowing for the observation of all that moves afloat.

4 |14 | 26 degrees east
Anca Poterasu Gallery,Bucharest and lítost, Prague
as part of NADA Miami x Brussels
secember 2020

Inkwash
Sector 1 Gallery
curated by Florina Drăguș
september 2023