An interview by
, curator and curator
Ilinca Bernea
I started wishing to become a writer when I was about 12. Until then, I had wanted to become a space explorer and cosmonaut, like almost all children. When I discovered the power of narratives over the soul, it was clear enough for me that this was what I wanted to do. It was obvious to me that the act of writing was a way to materialize and to objectify fictions in order to covey them into a parallel reality … Literature comes to fill up the emptiness of quotidian life with whatever our inner lives push us to live. It ' s a way of resizing and reconfiguring it. Literature sets in motion our hidden potential and I am talking from both perspectives: the one of the writer and of the reader. During the years of accumulations and experiences with my writing, I had some moments of blockage and then, because I kept feeling the need to express myself in a creative way, I started taking photos and painting. Recently, I ' ve started reciting my own lyrics on music and I ' ve made some dance experiments guided by my childhood friend, Mihaela Zamfirescu,( we grew up on the same street) and who became,
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