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I work with images, language and structures that already exist, treating them as material rather than reference. My practice often begins with found content, archives or cultural artifacts, which I appropriate and reframe through different processes, systems and constraints. By placing existing material in new contexts, I examine how meaning is produced, perceived and transformed.

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What may appear controlled or analytical is often driven by the need to hold together fragments of experience. I use order not to resolve meaning, but to reveal what cannot be contained. I do not begin with a medium, but with the subject I want to investigate, choosing the form that best allows it to take shape.

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Rather than seeking resolution, I use art as a space where opposing states can coexist. I am interested in the gap between what we see and what we believe we see, and in how perception can shift when certainty begins to break down. The work remains open, unstable and aware of its own limits, reflecting a reality shaped as much by systems as by the human impulse to resist them.

© 2026 by Alex Manea Art

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