Towards a new domesticity

CAV Bucharest & The Balcony The Hague

Globalworth Warneckei Tower; Floreasca Dracaena Sky Tower; Financial Dieffenbachia Plaza; Casa Dracaena Libere; Ana Erumpens Tower; Philodendron International; Euro Ficus. 2023

Posters, MC silk 250 g/m²
ball pen, unique drawings
59,4 x 84,1 cm

^{Globalworth Warneckei Tower, 2023}

^{Posters, MC silk 250 g/m²
ball pen drawings
59,4 x 84,1 cm}

^{Floreasca Dracaena Sky Tower, 2023}

^{Posters, MC silk 250 g/m²
ball pen drawings
59,4 x 84,1 cm}

^{Financial Dieffenbachia Plaza, 2023}

^{Posters, MC silk 250 g/m²
ball pen drawings
59,4 x 84,1 cm}

^{Casa Dracaena Libere, 2023}

^{Posters, MC silk 250 g/m²
ball pen drawings
59,4 x 84,1 cm}

^{Ana Erumpens Tower, 2023}

^{Posters, MC silk 250 g/m²
ball pen drawings
59,4 x 84,1 cm}

^{Philodendron International, 2023}

^{Posters, MC silk 250 g/m²
ball pen drawings
59,4 x 84,1 cm}

^{Euro Ficus, 2023}

^{Posters, MC silk 250 g/m²
ball pen drawings
59,4 x 84,1 cm}

Towards a new domesticity (Globalworth Warneckei Tower; Floreasca Dracaena Sky Tower; Financial Dieffenbachia Plaza; Casa Dracaena Libere; Ana Erumpens Tower; Philodendron International; Euro Ficus), is a work based on a seemingly outdated book about office plants. The images are pre-existent and chosen for their peculiar color characteristics, their lightly faded color conveying a sense of not-so-long ago –bureaucratically recent times. Enlarging the images they feel poster-like, from a sales catalog or street ads, over which are overlapped ball pen drawings from the seven tallest office buildings in Bucharest. The title of the works reflect such ambivalence, by combining the plant’s botanical denomination with the tower’s name.

WITH WORKS BY Arthur Cordier, Valentino Russo, Gabrielle Stemmer and Ariane Toussaint
CURATED BY The Balcony in conversation with CAV Gallery

^{FEB.09 — 24.2024, The Balcony, The Hague}
^{SEP.29 — OCT.29.2023, CAV Gallery, Bucharest}

Link ︎The Balcony

^{CAV Gallery, Bucharest}