Self-made traps
There are traps like cages that we create around us, where we are free to enter or leave, which we can bypass, or turn into our comfort zone. The aim of this project is to investigate both the personal space and space negotiations in the relations with others. I am interested in people’s need to create a comfort zone in various situations and settings where we need to interact and relate both to the space we are in and to other people.
A metaphor of capture and containment, the traps embody various scenarios. Therefore they are false traps, anyone is free to come in or out of them, space delimitation is fictitious, role-playings are interwoven, positions constantly revised, to the point where the captured is the capturer, the routes and directions of crossing the space are intuitively chosen.
Self-made traps
There are traps like cages that we create around us, where we are free to enter or leave, which we can bypass, or turn into our comfort zone. The aim of this project is to investigate both the personal space and space negotiations in the relations with others. I am interested in people’s need to create a comfort zone in various situations and settings where we need to interact and relate both to the space we are in and to other people.
A metaphor of capture and containment, the traps embody various scenarios. Therefore they are false traps, anyone is free to come in or out of them, space delimitation is fictitious, role-playings are interwoven, positions constantly revised, to the point where the captured is the capturer, the routes and directions of crossing the space are intuitively chosen.
Cage Structure
Cage Structures is a body of work that extends from the two-dimensionality of geometric drawings to the three-dimensionality of a sculptural object made in aluminum. At first glance, the drawings bring to mind technical representations of a series of six similar structures. Despite their formal precision, the imagined structures maintain a mysterious purpose. Lucia Ghegu incorporates in their makeup various architectural, industrial, and erotic references, which are open to interpretation. Embracing contradictions, the structures are animated by an inner tension between opposite elements: structured/inexact, symmetrical/imbalanced, centrifugal/centripetal, logical/implausible. The result is a sensation of ambiguity and playfulness that crosses the mediums, from drawings to object. With Cage Structures, the artist articulates a study on the way our attitudes and actions are determined spontaneously, intuitively or subconsciously by self-developed “mental architectures" and a sensual imaginary.
