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

Personal, psychological, and public spaces intersect in marginality, shaping socio-cultural interactions. Symbolism and the interpretation of collective history foster identity experiences and dialogue about people’s interaction with their environment. Some images depict the Romanian village's elevation, while others reflect vestiges of the communist past. Titles such as Schimbu' trei, a phrase used by factory workers during communism, provide context to the images, as they represent a part of their history.

(Gia Țidorescu)