Harvesting Structure No. 2.1
The installation is a circular ensemble made up of copper baskets, arranged in a modular layout of 4 x 8 x 16 pieces. The objects used—ready-made baskets taken from the contemporary domestic environment—are commonly found in kitchens, used for storing food, fruits, and vegetables.
The intervention transforms these functional objects into elements of a sculptural installation that proposes a utopian vision of harvesting.
The work questions the relationship between the everyday object, the archaic gesture of gathering crops, and the imaginary of speculative technology, offering a visual meditation on the transformations in how we collect, preserve, and relate to resources.
Dan Vezentan
Dan Vezentan ( born 1978, Seini ), graduated Bucharest University of Arts, lives and works as an artist and photographer in Bucharest.
He explores the zootechnic and agricultural universe, presenting it subjectively, as he recalls his childhood memories. His works stem from the design of households, the animal feeding and watering systems or from the food stocking systems, investigating the production of food, surplus, biological waste and ecology.
He grew up in the context of an agriculture based environment in Maramureș, northern Romania, surrounded by feeding machineries, technical husbandry manuals and animal anatomy books.