Diana Antohe
My practice explores the identity of the in-between, the overlap in
the Venn diagram of two cultures. As a Romanian-born, US-raised
artist, I want to preserve and broadcast links to the cultures of my
upbringing and birthplace. My understanding and experience of
Romania has always been defined by my family. In the wake of
my last grandparent’s death, the relationship becomes unclear.
In my attempts to ground and define my own identity, I look to my
parents and grandparents for cues on how they made a home for
themselves wherever they went, reflecting their experiences with
voluntary and involuntary displacement.
I use materials that served us as portable points of connection
and placeholders, easily sent through the mail or the suitcases
of other immigrants—primarily drawing, painting, and sewing
on textiles and paper. Weaving information shared by generations
of my family within the historical and pop-culture climates
of Romania and the United States, I intend to embody what I was
taught: home is made by the sharing of stories and the familial
value of care of others.
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