Natalia Irina Roman (1982)
About me
My Berlin story begins in 2006 and counting. I come from an interdisciplinary family, which is the key to the reading of my mixed background of Law, Visual Arts and Cultural Policy. I’ve studied in Bucharest, Frankfurt am Main and Berlin and worked, among others, for the Martin-Gropius-Bau and the Berlin International Film Festival.
I’m fascinated by places and spaces which lost their initial function, as well as by every day urban poetry – I’ve filmed the abandoned Christmas trees of Berlin four winters in a row, to finally construct a site-specific video installation in an industrial hall, end of 2010. One of my latest projects is an online storytelling of people met on the former Berlin Tempelhof airport – One Month, 31 Portraits. Berlin is an unfolding muse for me.
My activity both as researcher and artist circles around the concept of site-specificity. I’ve started developing an interest in this concept at an early age thanks to my uncle, the sculptor Mircea Roman. I visited as a child many of his exhibitions and was captivated by some of the locations he would choose to display his sculptures and the way his works would relate to these interiors. His influence on my current work also translates into my interest in sculptural constructions – I’m constructing sculptural mixed media video installations designed for selected spaces and events.
Where else can you find me online?
My website
Former airport project
Also see this interview with me on the main Spotted by Locals website!
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