{"id":10255,"date":"2025-01-27T15:57:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T14:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/festival2025.videoformes.com\/?page_id=10255"},"modified":"2025-03-05T09:57:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T08:57:03","slug":"grecu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/festival2025.videoformes.com\/en\/exhibitions\/grecu\/","title":{"rendered":"Mihai Grecu"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"10255\" class=\"elementor elementor-10255 elementor-10207\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d47dca1 elementor-section-content-middle trait-after elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d47dca1\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-12480f8\" data-id=\"12480f8\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2fc0cc4 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"2fc0cc4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! 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elementor - v3.18.0 - 20-12-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>Thursday, March 13 \u2013 Sunday, March 30<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ebcb28f kill-mg-bot elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"ebcb28f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.18.0 - 20-12-2023 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><h2 style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: collapse;\"><i>Digital Desert<\/i><span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-primary ); font-family: Bold, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 42px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve; background-color: var( --e-global-color-819338f );\"><\/span><\/h2><\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d7b9796 kill-mg-bot elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d7b9796\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9896695 kill-mg-bot elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9896695\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\"><div class=\"elementor-widget-container\"><h4>Mihai GRECU<\/h4><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a227232 kill-mg-bot elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a227232\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/KtFqhPxBtK9CSEFW7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Room Gilbert-Gaillard, 2 rue Saint Pierre<\/a><\/h6><p><strong>Opening hours:<br \/><\/strong>Tuesday to Saturday, 1pm to 7pm<br \/>Sunday from 2pm to 6pm<strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p><p><strong>Free access<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-317e63a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"317e63a\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-aa1c86c\" data-id=\"aa1c86c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-64a2255 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"64a2255\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><h4 style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; white-space-collapse: collapse;\">The work:<span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-primary ); font-family: Bold, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 42px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; white-space-collapse: preserve;\"><\/span><\/h4><\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1a67200 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1a67200\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><b>Digital Desert<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0is a series of intricate visual metaphors that explore the concept of artificial landscapes in an age where nature and technology increasingly collide. Positioned at the intersection of land art and science fiction-inspired dreamscapes, this project is a collaborative endeavor with AI, where the boundaries between organic and synthetic blur. Together, we conjure vivid, speculative visions of matter\u2019s transformation within the vast, uncharted terrain of the digital desert\u2014a place both alien and familiar, where new worlds emerge.<\/p><p>At its core, the series serves as an exploration of interconnectedness: the delicate threads binding vegetation, the fluid and vaporous nature of cloud-like matter, the strange beauty of levitating geology, and the cold precision of artificial spaces. Here, nature is translated into the language of machines, rendered not with brushstrokes or clay but through algorithms and data. Despite their origins, these creations retain a sense of fragility. The artworks, ephemeral and otherworldly, float above the digital desert like transient entities, untethered yet encased within a synthetic framework\u2014a nod to self-destructing art exhibitions where permanence is an illusion.<\/p><p>Each of these landscapes stands as a testament to the increasingly blurred boundaries between the natural and the technological. They reflect a contemporary reality where human consumption has scarred the Earth, reducing vast ecosystems to ashes and replacing them with virtual simulations. In this world, plants, animals, and even entire environments are reconstructed as digital replicas\u2014simulacra that echo what has been lost but can never fully replace the essence of the real.<\/p><p>Through its evocative imagery and speculative approach,\u00a0<strong><b>Digital Desert<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0invites the viewer to ponder the implications of this transformation. It asks questions about what it means to coexist with technology, about the consequences of human intervention, and about the fleeting nature of existence itself. In these imagined dreamscapes, the artificial becomes a mirror to our reality, reflecting the paradox of progress and loss in a society racing toward an uncertain future.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d4752d5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d4752d5\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a0cfd65\" data-id=\"a0cfd65\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e4e3268 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"e4e3268\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><h4 style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; white-space-collapse: collapse;\">The artist:<span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-primary ); font-family: Bold, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 42px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; white-space-collapse: preserve;\"><\/span><\/h4><\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-305277a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"305277a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Mihai Grecu is a Romanian visual artist and filmmaker. A graduate of Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains, he lives and works in Paris. Oscillating between experimental cinema and CGI creations, his singular imagery stages dreamlike visions shot through with political allegories, surrealist objects, modified architecture and symbolic characters.<\/p><p>He is the laureate of the &#8220;Prix du Syndicat de la Critique du Cin\u00e9ma&#8221; for his documentary work. His filmic and artistic work has been presented and awarded at numerous film festivals (Rotterdam, Festival du Nouveau Cin\u00e9ma de Montr\u00e9al, Videoformes, Videobrasil) and exhibitions (&#8220;Dans la nuit, des images&#8221; at the Grand Palais, &#8220;Labyrinthe de mon esprit&#8221; at Le Cube, &#8220;Studio&#8221; at Galerie Les filles du Calvaire, Ars Electronica etc).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p>Artist&#8217;s website: <a href=\"https:\/\/mihaigrecu.net\/\">https:\/\/mihaigrecu.net\/<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-871a6c2\" data-id=\"871a6c2\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7b97eb4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"7b97eb4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/festival2025.videoformes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Mihai-grecu-23-c1-600-2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-10238\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/festival2025.videoformes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Mihai-grecu-23-c1-600-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/festival2025.videoformes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Mihai-grecu-23-c1-600-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/festival2025.videoformes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Mihai-grecu-23-c1-600-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/festival2025.videoformes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Mihai-grecu-23-c1-600-2-146x146.jpg 146w, https:\/\/festival2025.videoformes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Mihai-grecu-23-c1-600-2-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/festival2025.videoformes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Mihai-grecu-23-c1-600-2-75x75.jpg 75w, https:\/\/festival2025.videoformes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Mihai-grecu-23-c1-600-2-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/festival2025.videoformes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Mihai-grecu-23-c1-600-2-80x80.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-454e130 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"454e130\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-cdc81d4\" data-id=\"cdc81d4\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0b2cb6c elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"0b2cb6c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-large\">Artist's portrait:<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-acfa80a elementor-widget elementor-widget-video\" data-id=\"acfa80a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;youtube_url&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=-Co-iVPrn_Q&quot;,&quot;video_type&quot;:&quot;youtube&quot;,&quot;controls&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"video.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! 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What do we see? What do we hear? What do we see?<\/strong><\/li><\/ul><p>It&#8217;s a holographic device featuring visual metaphors created with the help of artificial intelligence, depicting strange, imaginary desert spaces.<\/p><ul><li><b>What&#8217;s it all about?<\/b><\/li><\/ul><p>Synthesizing nature through AI.<\/p><ul><li><b>Is this the first time this installation has been presented to the public? Can you tell us a little about the creative process that led to this result?<\/b><\/li><\/ul><p>It was shown in Cluj, Romania. I start by making AI videos and then I transform them into 3d by adding depth data to create the holographic aspect.<\/p><ul><li><b>What artists (from all disciplines) or art forms in general have inspired your work, and what references have you drawn on for this installation?<\/b><\/li><\/ul><p>This installation is a tribute to Bill Viola, one of the pioneers of video art, who died last year.<\/p><ul><li><strong>What problems, constraints, challenges &#8230; have you encountered in developing it?<\/strong><\/li><\/ul><p>Above all, adapt AI-generated images to this deep 3d rendering technology.<\/p><ul><li><b>Can you give one or more Internet links where we can see your work?<\/b><\/li><\/ul><p>My Instagram, @thegrecu<\/p><ul><li><b>Can you give us a few keywords that might describe your installation?<\/b><\/li><\/ul><p>AI, desert, hologram<\/p><ul><li><b>A few words about your artistic career? At what point in your life did you become interested in digital art? Can you make a living from your art?<\/b><\/li><\/ul><p>In my artistic practice, I gradually turned to digital creation in the 2000s, making video artworks and experimental films that blend dreamlike visions with real-life shots. This path led me towards a complex work process using constantly evolving new technologies.<\/p><p>First through CGI and then with the advent of virtual reality, 3d animation and finally Artificial Intelligence, I express myself with a wide range of creative tools on digital media. Between 2006 and 2008 I was a student at Le Fresnoy, which gave me my first opportunity to work with a film and post-production team. The two hybrid works I produced at Le Fresnoy, at the crossroads of experimental cinema, video art and 3d animation, have won awards and been selected for numerous art festivals and exhibitions in France and abroad. This experience has broadened my vision, motivating me to create audacious projects in which I address contemporary issues (such as the ecological crisis, late capitalism, geopolitics) by confronting them with increasingly powerful and philosophically provocative new technologies (computer-generated images, virtual reality, holograms, artificial intelligence). I&#8217;ve come to understand that, to reveal the hidden dimensions of the contemporary world, I need to master digital technologies, which are one of the constitutive languages of contemporary geopolitics, increasingly complex and unpredictable, against a backdrop of late capitalism and the breakthrough of extremist ideologies. Gradually, a motif became central to my work: the allegory of the absurdity of totalitarian political regimes, which I represent using new technologies. Initially centered around the ecological crisis and the excesses of capitalism in my work of the 2010s, the political metaphor begins to encompass the themes of totalitarianism and dictatorship around 2015.\u00a0<\/p><p>The series of three short films \u201ccentipede sun\u201d, \u201cexland\u201d and \u201cwe&#8217;ll become oil\u201d (between 2009 and 2012) hijack desert landscapes to reveal invisible facets of a growing environmental crisis. I transform existing nature by adding visual metaphors that reflect on the complexity of climatic and geographic disruption. For example, in \u201cwe&#8217;ll become oil\u201d I show gigantic fictitious oil well fires in an indeterminate country, entirely computer-generated. 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