I am a visual artist using moving-image, text and installation to question dominant narratives across recent histories. By analyzing ideological and cultural apparatuses I seek the origins of these narratives and how peripheral subjects, be they humans, plants or animals, experience them. I think of my artworks as propositions that indicate alternatives to dominant ideologies that shape our understanding of what nature or technology is. Fictional or investigative, my video work manifests in experimental forms, while sculptures and objects are reconfigurations of already existing phenomena. 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. I identify with the experiences of the subjects in my work, hence each project has a strong personal significance. My 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. I approach writing and filmmaking as propositional, rejecting both dominant ideologies and utopia and embracing hybrids such as theory-fiction, docu-fiction, slipstream, video essays, expanded cinema, and magic realism.
Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival
Screening of "Surge of Transference" as part of the official competition 2024.
Rotterdams Open Doek Film Festival 2024
Screening of the video "Surge of Transference" .
SHOVEL:HAMMER:AXE
A group screening by the Rotterdam-based artist collective SHED in collaboration with WET film, featuring works by Geo Barcan, Antoni Czarczyński, Mónica Ruiz van Hattem, Martin Osowski & Ollie Paterson.
Go Short Film Festival
Screening of "Surge of Transference" as part of the official Dutch competition.
Amsterdam Dance Event
Live screening and music performance of "Love Letter to Salma" in collaboration with Yara Said.
Internet Cafe
Group exhibition resulting from the Salwa Residency, exploring the intersection of community, migration and the internet featuring Chen Yu Wang, Geo Barcan, Hala Alsadi, Sixin Zeng.
Shady Dealings With Language
Receiver of the grant "Shady Dealings With Language" 2023, dedicated to artists who work at the intersection of visual arts and writing.
Surge of Transference
Surge of Transference is a video essay that investigates the expansion of the internet in a small Romanian town, where communities have formed and shifted around the newly imported Western technology. Within this micro-universe, the video traces the rapid transformation of the internet, from the early days of peer to-peer software to the upload of online late capitalism.
Een gedicht is een netwerk
For this evening curated by Maxime Garcia Diaz , Perdu explores the poetic nature of the internet: how the poem and the network both follow the logic of association and constellation, and what questions are raised by that logic. Invited speakers were Samuel Vriezen, Geo Barcan and Merel van Slobbe.
Was There a Paradise or Was the Garden a Dream
Graduation group show of Lens Based Media department at the Piet Zwart Institute, featuring Adèle Grégoire, Martin Osowski, Luca Tichelman, Alecio Ferrari, Kamali van Bochove, Elysa-James Kooijman, Geo Barcan, slvie, Sacha Dufils, Tessel Schmidt, Dachen Bao, Ariela Bergman.
The Sky Has Never Been So Close
The Sky Has Never Been So Close (2022) is a fictional video and sculpture installation about a garden at
the edge between the real and the imaginary. The video traces the intricate relationships between
humans and non-humans, challenging patriarchal notions of family and hierarchical structures within
ecosystems. This work originates in my experience of realizing that I do not identify with a human family,
but rather with that of insects, flowers, herbs, worms and other nonhuman beings.
Kid of the Internet
Kid of the internet is a collection of visual and written essays about living and growing up in late 2000s Romania. Autobiographical and at points fictional, the hybrid work follows the life-changing impact of the internet in the artist’s hometown and community. An embodied, local history of the world wide web in Eastern Europe.
Deep Sustainability: Dialogical Action Emerging Institutionalities
Received a grant to participate in the "Deep Sustainability" summer school.
Eye Research Labs
Group presentation of works in progress organised by the Piet Zwart Institute in collaboration with the Eye Film Museum.
The Wrong Degree Show
Online presentation of the web-based interactive work "Second_liver" in collaboration with Aida Sharaf.