Mălina Moncea (b.1995) is an artist of Romanian origin, finishing her bachelor's and master's studies at the George Enescu National University of Arts, Faculty of Visual Arts and Design, Photo-Video section in Iasi, currently a PhD student at the same institution. She works with a wide range of media, such as photography, video, objects, or sculpture, often combining them in installations. She examines themes such as urban mythologies and how they have infiltrated through popular ideologies into the spaces we inhabit, how we think about certain social and political topics, and, most of all, how elusive and optically ambiguous the fictions we act and revive. She appreciates the uncanny and marginal aspect (as well as the aesthetic representation) of what lies beyond conscious thought and investigates what part is fiction and what is objective truth in the liminality of the mind.

Personal, psychological, and public spaces intersect in marginality, shaping socio-cultural interactions. Symbolism and collective history interpretation foster identity experiences and dialogue about human interaction with their environment. Some images depict the Romanian village's elevation, while others reflect post-communist remnants. Titles like Third shift, a phrase used by factory workers during communism, provide context to images, representing part of their history.

(Gia Țidorescu)