The Volunteer I
Inspired by Jeff Wall’s 1996 photograph Volunteer, and drawing on a peculiarly Romanian reality where one frequently encounters departments headed by managers with no one to manage, I created a series of restaged scenes illustrating this situation.
The vacant positions existed on paper, allowing bureau chiefs, department heads and directors in public institutions to automatically claim higher pay. In the public sector, the criteria for holding a managerial role are tied to the number of positions listed in the organizational chart – not the number of those actually filled.
ONE MAN SHOW
Bucharest, 2026
