Searching For My Remains

SEARCHING FOR MY REMAINS

Exhibition view

Atelier 35 Bucharest is pleased to announce the opening of the solo exhibition Searching for My Remains, marking the debut of artist David Pricob (b. 2000, Petrila), a graduate of the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca, where he completed both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees, spending his second year of the master’s program at the École européenne supérieure d’art de Bretagne in Rennes, France, within the Erasmus exchange program.

Searching for My Remains offers a reflection on the themes of dissolution and disintegration, understood as an open-ended process centered on the profound transformations occurring within the Valea Jiului—once defined by industrial prosperity, now reshaped by the decline of the mining sector. Disintegration is conceptualized here not as a final state but as a dynamic process, wherein memory, matter, and landscape transcend their status as fixed entities and emerge as permeable structures, caught in a state of perpetual metamorphosis.

Exhibition view

David situates his practice in the present, with his works serving as instances of a dynamic in which fragments of the past become active, reconfiguring both the gallery space and perceptions of a territory where historical, social, and material layers coexist in unstable tension. In this framework, any process of disintegration, regardless of scale, may generate conditions for possible reconfiguration. Rather than indulging in a melancholic contemplation of ruin, the exhibition proposes a space of latent possibilities, where what appears to be an end serves instead as a threshold toward a new organization of matter and memory—revealing the ways in which identity and space undergo a continuous process of becoming.

Avoiding closure through a definitive interpretation, the audience is invited to negotiate meaning for themselves, engaging in an intimate and unscripted dialogue in which fragility and ephemerality act as agents of a redefined reality.