Geo Barcan

visual artist

Geo Barcan is a Romanian visual artist using moving-image, text and installation to question dominant narratives across recent histories. By analyzing ideological and cultural apparatuses she seeks the origins of these narratives and how peripheral subjects, be they humans, plants or animals, experience them. Her works are propositions that indicate alternatives to dominant ideologies that shape our understanding of what nature or technology is.

Political, ecological, cosmological, and technological themes come to the surface through the experiences of beings/characters that originate from marginal places, at the edge of the world, and to whom things that are out of their control happen.

Her work originates from a deep feeling of urgency fuelled by the desire to comprehend reality and the systems of beliefs accumulated across colonial histories which have been affecting the use and creation of technological machines as well as global experiences and perceptions of the environment.