A graduate from the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj and the Superior School of Arts in Strasbourg, Ramona Poenaru investigates human behaviour and interactions in private and public space.
Influenced by Rudolf Laban's movement notation system (Kinetographie, 1928) and his theories of effort and shape (Book on Effort, 1947), she explores the human being as an acting subject.
She is the author of audiovideo installations called "everyday life choreographies" that describe, interpret and document human movement, spatial distance and spatial relationships.
During her Attic Arts residence at the Institute, Ramona will undertake research at the Laban Centre in London and develop a project with a London based choreographer.
Personal exhibitions (selection): 2007/ "The Play of Seven Errors", CEAAC, Strasbourg and National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul; 2006/ "The Waiting List", Museum of Contemporary Art, Strasbourg; 2005/ "Drive (me) in", Espace Desjardins, Alma-Quebec.
Group exhibitions (selection): 2007/ "Selfportrait", MACRO Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Rosario, Argentina; 2006/ "Biennale 3000", Sao Paolo, Brazil; 2005/ "Offset #1, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania.
When: 16 January - 10 February 2008; Where: Romanian Cultural Institute London
