Nona Inescu lives and works between Berlin, Germany, and Bucharest, Romania. Inescu’s artistic practice
is interdisciplinary and includes photography, installation, sculptures, and video works. Based on a
theoretical and literary perspective, the works focus on the relationship between the human body and the
environment and the redefinition of this subject in a post-human key. Concepts of geological time and our
intense interrelation with our surroundings compose an aesthetic of a primal contemporary togetherness
in an organic and biological techno-sphere.
”In my work, I am interested in the overlapping of human and non-human bodies and processes.” Inescu
is fascinated by stones and corals, as their development and growth have such a different time-frame
than human bodies. Especially interesting is the fact that the human body shares the molecular structure
of corals. This, according to Inescu is a common link between these animals and human beings. “Corals
are dying, because of the human impact upon the planet, while humans find ways of integrating coral
skeletons in their bodies, via implants or coral calcium supplements.” Recently the hand motif became a
necessary and active part of the artist’s body of photographic work.