About

Artist: Ana Lupaș

Humid Installation dates back to 1970. I conceived it as a vast action, covering large expanses of space, for Margau village in Transylvania. The work represents the extension of an older action, entitled The Flying Carpet, which took place in the Grigorescu district of Cluj in 1966.

To achieve Humid Installation, I worked both with a participatory model (over 100 persons were involved) and the principle of “re-contextualization”: the domestic gesture of hanging out the laundry was invested with new functions and meanings. The installation was predicated on the idea that …