Ana Cristina Irian

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Biography

Ana-Cristina Irian is a research-based artist and visual anthropologist working with photographic archives, memory objects, and multimedia formats. Guided by the motto “No one left behind,” her practice explores how personal and collective memories are shaped through images, material culture, and spatial transformations. Cristina’s works have featured in over 50 exhibitions nationally and internationally. She is a member of FUTURES and the Romanian Fine Arts Union.

Archive records · BUNA vol.3 / 2025

The Titans (and the Vanishing Green), 2025 Black-and-white photo-object structure; archival photographs (1980s) and contemporary photographs (2020-2025) 50 x 30 x 6 cm

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The Titans (and the Vanishing Green) reimagines Bucharest’s I.O.R. - Titan Park as a site of memory, displacement, and resistance. Using sculptural photography inspired by devotional travelling icons, the project explores how gentrification and urban policy erase shared spaces, impacting people, animals, and ecosystems alike. Through six interwoven images, The Titans invites viewers to move, feel, and re-see the park as a disappearing commons. By shifting with the viewer’s position, the photo-sculptural installation questions fixed narratives, borders, and belonging, offering a poetic, multispecies lens on presence, displacement, and the politics of the disappearing commons.