Extended Hours
Human Beengs - Between Being and Having Been
With Razvan Nastase
In his most recent series of works, Răzvan Năstase engages with his family's photographic archive, which spans over fifty years. The faces, transferred onto canvas and reworked through an artistic practice that deliberately cuts through successive layers of color, are recontextualised—transformed from their almost vernacular status into enduring witnesses that accompany the artist throughout his process.
In this interpretive framework, beengs, an intentionally misspelt construction, becomes a poetic gesture, evoking those who once were and still live within us. It plays on the tension between being and been, suggesting a form of past presence, a living memory.
