Nicu Popescu

Nicu Popescu is a multimedia artist working with generative systems, kinetic installations, and fulldome works. His practice uses code and computational processes to create light, sound, movement, and space. His work has been shown at MNAC Bucharest, UdK Berlin, and other international venues across Europe and North America.

I was very interested in the simplicity and clarity of the idea. An object tries to reproduce its own past and never fully succeeds. From this seemingly minimal situation emerges a project about the difference between what once was and what can be recovered. The relationship between object, image, and trace is built with precision and without unnecessary artifice. (Carmen Lidia Vidu, mentor)

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The project proposes a compelling video installation in which a kinetic object engages in real-time dialogue with its own recording from a black-and-white film, attempting to reconstruct its earlier sonic traces through small, unpredictable deviations in rhythm and intensity. The work's major relevance within the "Unboxing Brâncuși" Open Call lies in its deep, if indirect, connection to Brâncuși's vision, achieved through a rigorous reduction of form and artistic gesture to an essential core, governed by the pure relationship between object, light, movement, and time. This conceptual framework also opens a dialogue with Man Ray's practice, transforming the video image from mere documentation into an active trace that alters the object's present-day behavior and refreshes the modernist legacy.