Positioned in the natural-urban framework of the Văcărești Delta, the project entitled “Nucleu 0009: DETERIORATION OF LANDSCAPE” represented transdisciplinary artistic cooperation and, at the same time, research embodied in performative interventions, land-art works, and site-specific installations.

Gabriela Mateescu continued the Nucleu 0000 exhibitions in nature for the first time, after years spent in galleries or alternative spaces.

Bucharest is a city suffocated by concrete, but among the heavy slabs that delimit the city, nature demands its rights and makes its own place. On the site of the former communist project, the water storage Văcărești, long abandoned, a wet ecosystem has been formed in the last 30 years, claiming its own territory without any help from man, right in the middle of the largest urban agglomeration in the country. Having, meanwhile, become a delta in the true sense of the word, an independent eco-system in the heart of the capital, the Văcărești Delta is the ideal place to contemplate the state of nature and the effects of human intervention.

On October 24, 2021, the public was invited to take a walk and discover in nature the works of artists Roberta Curcă, Mălina Ionescu, Gabriela Mateescu, Andreea Medar, Kiki Mihuță, and Marina Oprea. Lost in the landscape were also the students of the performance workshop “microRave: attempts to become a landscape,” coordinated by Andreea David and Maria Baroncea with music by Chlorys. A week before the event, young people from Bucharest with artistic abilities were invited to come to the delta for a dance performance workshop. Taking advantage of the last sunny autumn days, half of the students also participated in the final performance.

To assist visitors in this journey, a map has been made with the GPS coordinates of the works positioned at the entrances to the delta and among the works. Three guided tours helped the public walk the artistic route with the organizers and the artists, and the installations were collected the next day to respect the unspoiled space of the area.

In addition to the audience specific to the art events, it was a warm Sunday when the general public went out for a walk and thus had the opportunity to meet the random artworks.