Marius Ritiu ()

Marius' practice questions concepts such as nationhood, borders and nationalism, reflecting on global responsibility, collective consciousness, and citizenship. He is interested in the potential for unification; of ways to celebrate difference instead of using it to create division. In his view the boundaries we set up are not just artificial, but often perverse, requiring radical revision.

He is particularly drawn to copper as a material because of its primary role as connector and conductor. Its incorporation into technology (communication, transport) has enabled and increased the mobility of ideas, goods, and people, impacting the nature and physicality of borders.

The technique he uses is Repoussé, which does not require a highly equipped studio, and which therefore suits his nomadic lifestyle. It is his personal experience as a travelling artist and an immigrant that informs and anchors his practice. But the quest essential to his work is to comprehend and express the global through the local, the universal through the particular, the familiar through the alien. His work explores the fundamental way in which we are all connected.

Marius' work has been shown internationally, and includes monumental and site specific works.