Working with close crops of found images and parts of objects, Andreea Anghel’s works combine fragmented histories and aesthetics into oversized vitrines. Vinyl banner prints encased in aluminium and plexiglass resemble uncanny subway advertisements or curiosity cabinets. The large-scale assemblages cause rifts to open, allowing society’s neat sewing to rip slightly, just enough to offer a peek into the uncomfortable layers underneath.

Born and raised in Romania in the ’90s, 𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗮 𝗔𝗻𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗹 now lives and works in Wrocław, Poland. While her work may vary in terms of style from one show to the next, the underlying theme tends to aggregate around subverting standard formal preconceptions that might have already colonised the viewer’s expectations, mixing ready-mades with time-consuming manual and emotional labour. And then there’s irony, lots of irony and cynicism.