Photo by Sameer D. Sawant
Contact: anca.dimofte@gmail.com
I am an interdisciplinary artist working with performance, mixed media and video. With a background in documentary filmmaking my practice is socially engaged focusing on social injustice, patriarchal violence and the intergenerational stories we tell through our bodies.
Selected work:
Soil Pledges, 2023 - a participatory performance at Calthorpe Community Garden in collaboration with artist Dana Olarescu; we joined the Day of the Dead celebrations with an offering of ‘coliva’ - a traditional Romanian funeral cake - in exchange for pledges for the soil regeneration. The mourning of the soil was used to catalyse people’s commitments towards its recovery.
Touching Legacy 2023, a visual poem documenting the dying corals in the Red Sea and a child’s hand tentatively trying to touch what was left behind.
Critical Dance 2022 a collective dance performance at Chisenhale Dance space in collaboration with artists Dana Olarescu and Noemi Gunea. The piece was inspired by the lack of safe spaces for womxn and non binary people and by the relentless gender injustice. We encouraged participants to move freely while reflecting on how our bodies are entangled with all species.
Hide and See-k, illustration and collage for a children’s book with artist and writer Irina Nedelcu.
Inhaling Light, video installation, Guangzhou Museum, China 2021; collaborative project part of Womanifesto collective exploring images of ‘breath’ as connectors between living bodies
Threads, performance & video projection, in collaboration with artist Nilofar Akmut, Little Angel Theatre London 2019; exploring archive images of childhood in communist Romania investigating violence and surveillance of the body and the possibility for liberation
Grand Mater, video, London 2019, exploring the bond between my body and my grandmother’s.
EU:UE, performance, Barking Town Square 2019; enquiry into issues of identity & exclusion in context of Brexit
Madam Kazmi and the drivers, documentary, Short Film Corner Cannes Film Festival 2015: everyday politics of Zahida Kazmi a taxi driver in Pakistan