Elpetitri
In a distant world called Spocla, a group of imaginary friends known as Elpetitri comes together. The team includes Flumpung (Thassos marble), Tunpandio (semi-precious aragonite), Vuktibar (hazelnut marble), Compintri (black Carrara marble), and Carambindru (grey fossil marble). The smaller friends are still in shock and couldn’t show up.
Flumpung, calm and steady, sits at the base, supporting the others—who are often in conflict. The story unfolds in the courtyard of a school in Sagahapi, where the Elpetitri group faces off against the bully, Vuktibar, who’s been picking on the defenseless little ones.
The friends devise a plan: Flumpung forms the base, Compintri distracts Vuktibar, and Tunpandio launches the smaller friends from a cannon toward Carambindru, who’s waiting with a cart borrowed from the Bulbenzi. The mission must be fast and precise—starting with the most sensitive friends before the cannon overheats.
(Of course, things didn’t go exactly as planned.)
But luckily, Tunpandio’s plan worked, and the Elpetitri managed to rescue the little ones.
The story is a metaphor: only through unity, compassion, and teamwork can we overcome injustice and protect one another. Elpetitri represents the harmony between body and soul, consciousness and imagination—a still frame from a larger imagined tale.
Ștefan Sergiu Siminic
Ștefan Sergiu Siminic was born on May 27, 1994, in Bucharest. He graduated from the “Nicolae Tonitza” High School of Fine Arts and the National University of Arts in Bucharest.
Through its universal simplicity, the chosen theme represents the artist not only as a person but also in spirit. The theme “Imaginary Friends” is inspired by his childhood and aims to completely divert attention from everything happening in the present, encouraging the audience—without coercion—to focus their gaze on the artistic element.