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Alina Negoita (b. 1991, Romania) is a London-based interdisciplinary artist addressing the politics of truth, human connection, representation, identity and social atmospheres, informed by feminist theories.
She cross-pollinates between visual arts and creative direction, politics and poetry, the academic and the experiential, whilst through the intimacy of her stills, questions conventional attitudes towards the female gaze.
Growing up as a first post-USSR generation, her research holds her childhood history and the vision of moving away from its past; a personal effort to revolt against far-off feelings seeking to rebuild a chosen identity – taking distance yet inextricably linked to it, returning to what it belongs to, taking new forms. Hers is an ongoing personal research on being and becoming, form and movement, time and space configuration, where different principles from art, humanities and science meet and clash to tell the stories of her subjects, in an attempt to establish personal meeting points with the universal.
In an entanglement between strength and vulnerability, complexity and simplicity, imperfection and sensuality, connection and one’s own narrative, what appears as defined, dissolves; Negoita’s captivating blend of mediums and subjects is an endeavour to unite frictions through an interlayered understanding of life.
About: Jin, Jiyan, Azadi: Women, Life, Freedom words by Alina Negoita
Patriarchy, capitalism, nation state – they all are ultimately about control; control that keeps oppression and inequality in place.
Who is legitimate and who is not?
Who is a freedom fighter?
Who is a terrorist?
Who controls the women’s bodies and with what political intent?
Can a state be a terrorist?
Jin, Jiyan,Azadi: Women, Life, Freedom is an interdisciplinary project which documents the women’s liberation movement in Rojava (Northern Syria) by looking at freedom and identity in terms of genderpolitics, geopolitics, and cybersecurity. From Google Maps visualization of the places liberated – both territorially and ideologically, from collected materials and archives to recorded interviews questioning what freedom means for Kurdish women, the project aims for intimacy even when divided by a here/there binary and reflects on how Kurdish women are currently creating an alternative language that might shape how politics is done in Middle East.
