Angelica Stan

Angelica Stan made her debut in 1999 with the poetry volume "Bumerang," published by Ed. Cartea Românească, receiving the debut prize in poetry. She went on to publish the volumes "Testul Umbrei" (2005), "Clona" (2009), "Spații intermediare" (2016), "Produse miraculoase" (2018), "O femeie urmărește ploaia de la etajul opt" (2020), "Exponate de artă brută" (2022), and "Nimic mai fragil decât creșterea" (2024). She has published groups of poems in magazines such as Poesis International, Tomis, Vatra, Matca, România Literară, Luceafărul, and others. Her poems have appeared in anthologies such as Pielea mea răcește lumea (2025) and Versopolis (2024). She has created or collaborated on a series of interdisciplinary cultural projects such as Tulbure/Clar (Dâmbovița Delivery, 2025), Spații în lumina poeziei (Noaptea Muzeelor, 2023), Architecture Club 55 (personal newspaper and poetry volume, AFCN, 2024, coord. uncristian), Omission Possible (with Mutual Loop/Martina Tritthart, Holger Lang, Austrian Cultural Forum, 2022), Reinițiere prin peisaj (with Andra Panait, A&A, as part of Romanian Design Week, 2022), Identități fragile (with Andra Panait, ARCUB, 2021), Un album ca o istorie a literaturii (AFCN, 2021, with uncristian), Togetherness (RDW, with Andra Panait A&A, 2021). She is an architect with a master's and PhD in urban planning, and a professor at the "Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Urbanism in Bucharest.

A genuinely compelling link between the abstract language of Brâncuși's sculptural form and the feminine/feminist discourse of Mina Loy, forged under the metaphor of rebirth through a technique of polishing that, in these texts, becomes synonymous with revealing. The awareness of the body as a living form in an acute process of awakening is the project's provocative and moving stake. (Ștefania Mihalache, mentor)