Cactuses
The project has a social focus and is part of a broader initiative to inform, engage, and make the public more accountable regarding plastic pollution. It is a visual metaphor that stages a silent process — one that almost goes unnoticed in the flow of daily life — a process that generates new plant structures, strange morphologies, growths, and organic malformations that nature, especially trees, develop as a response to coexisting with plastic.
Sergiu Chihaia
Sergiu Chihaia (b. 1982), graduated National University of Arts and is currently a titular lecturer in the Fashion department, within the same institution. Lives and works in Bucharest. Participated with his works at national and international exhibitions (Bucharest, Constanta, London and Venice). Has artworks in private collections in England, Italy, and Romania. In 2014 he won the UAP prize for Decorative - Textile Arts at the 5th edition of ''Arts in Bucharest''. Sculptor, designer, textile artist,t and stage designer. As a scenographer, his goal is to recreate the history of mankind as a stage, an exhibition space for humanities dramas, joys, and victories.