Photo by Scott Crawford

Contact: anca.dimofte@gmail.com

Anca is a Romanian-born artist who works with video, mixed media, and performance. With a background in documentary filmmaking, her work is informed by feminist theory, psychoanalysis, and social justice struggle. In her practice Anca interrogates the dichotomy between self and other, focusing on the potential of embodied practices and relational corporeal knowledge in becoming tools for change.

Selected work:

  • Soil Pledges, 2023 - a participatory performance a-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 grasp what we leave behind

  • Critical Dance 2023, 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 the urgent need to move away from the extractive capitalist gaze together with other living beings.

  • Hide and See-k, 2022 illustration and collage for a children’s book with artist and writer Irina Nedelcu.

  • Inhaling Light, 2022 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 2020, 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 Matter, 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