Bio

Subversive Matter | Ideology Vandalism | KulturKritiker | Punk-Poetic | Peace

Simion Cernica (b. Bucharest, Romania) currently works and lives in Los Angeles.

He is an artist who infuse his discourse with historical, social and cultural tropes. His work operates across various art forms and mediums—ranging from painting, photography, performance, video to installation and sculpture.

Simion develops his practice mainly by researching the recent history, exploring the current socio-political and cultural ‘energies’ or bringing intompay his own biography. He employs and refines artistic strategies from the historical avant-garde, Arte-Povera movement, or a fictional Poetic Insurgency artistic current, proposing speculative updates and avant-garde possibilities for the present time.

His works are usually born from ‘punk-poetic’ tensions and a subversive stance, and are coming together under a language of ‘kulturkritik’—a persistent, aestheticized refusal to let our society failures and alienations go unrecorded.

While questioning our approved cultural perspectives, he aims to challenge the way we perceive our reality, cultural history, and how we advance our precarious humanity.