Catalina Niculescu	SCHALL UND RAUCH
Absurd and strangely poignant, Niculescu’s practice exists in the space between performance and documentation, between the live and the mediated. Seemingly impulsive responses to the places she encounters result in a series of interferences with architecture and urban structures, recorded and sparsely edited to create enigmatic, transferable events in film, video and photography. To present these short, apparently spontaneous interventions back to the viewer in the gallery suggests that, otherwise, something of importance would have been missed. What that something is, or what it means, opens the work up to a variety of possible readings and equally manages to frustrate a definite interpretation while consistently engaging the viewer through their simple realization. Catalina Niculescu studied at the Academy of Art and Design, Offenbach, Germany and the Slade School of Art, London, UK. In the past year she showed work at: Catalina Niculescu, Riflemaker Gallery, London, After the Curtain Falls, Wolstenholme Projects, Liverpool; Illumination, Service Point Building, Manchester; Rehearsal Room, FormContent, London. Born in Bucharest, Romania niculescu.catalina@gmail.com